The
pioneering
€3m
($2.2m)
project,
co-ordinated
by
the
Fraunhofer
Institute
for
Wind
Energy
and
Energy
Systems
at
the
University
of
Kassel,
is
to
create
the
world’s
largest
virtual
power
plant.
In
the
first
stage,
the
Fraunhofer
Institute
modelled
the
real-time
output
of
three
wind
farms
totalling
12.6MW,
20
solar
plants
(5.5MW),
four
biogas
systems
(4MW)
and
an
8.4GWh
pumped-storage
hydro
facility,
and
showed
how
intelligent
control
systems
could
be
employed
to
combine
the
technologies
and
respond
to
the
electricity
demand
of
a
town
of
12,000
households
just
as…
