Real-Time Control of Renewable Community Energy Resources Including Demand Response Providers

This paper proposes a tool for the optimal real-time management of the resources of a renewable energy community. According to Italian Regulations, the renewable energy community members are fed by distribution networks connected to the upstream high-voltage network through the same substation. The community includes renewable energy systems, battery energy storage systems, and controllable and non-controllable loads. The proposed approach implements the optimal operation within a probabilistic framework and is aimed at maximising the community's shared energy, providing demand response to the distribution network, and providing available capacity for delivering services to the distribution grid and/or to the upstream grid. Numerical applications allow testing of the proposed real-time control tool showing its potential in terms of monitoring and control of the resources and of the required services.