MARICube: Intelligent Renewable Energy Management platform for UK market

RESs对英国电网的贡献正在稳步增长，因为它们是可持续的，减少了对化石燃料的依赖，减少了二氧化碳和其他污染物的排放，这是传统发电厂的典型特点。然而，为了满足电网日益增长的灵活性需求，并使所产生的能源价值最大化，高效的技术和财务管理现在是必不可少的。目前，市场上提出了几种从运营角度支持资产所有者的解决方案，但没有人能够在单一解决方案中提供有关能源生产和金融专业知识的技术实时数据。MARICube的目标是开发一个管理RESs的创新平台，同时考虑可能影响战略选择的技术、经济和市场因素。该平台旨在利用可用数据（包括来自SCADA的内部数据和外部数据、天气预报或能源市场指数）来预测资产运行情况，并评估向电网供电的替代策略。这种方法与储能技术相结合，使管理系统能够根据工厂的性质，在短时间内（1-3年）优化资产的生产、能源的销售和随之而来的投资回报率。

RESs contribution to the UK’s power grid is growing steadily, as they are sustainable, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, emissions of CO2 and other pollutants, typical of traditional power plants. However, in order to meet the power grid’s growing need for flexibility and to maximise the value of the generated energy, efficient technical and financial management is now essential. Currently, the market proposes several solutions that support asset owners from the operational perspective but no one is able to provide technical real time data on energy production and financial expertise in a single solution. MARICube aims to develop an innovative platform for managing RESs that simultaneously considers both the technical and the economic and market factors that can affect strategic choices. The platform is designed to exploit the available data (both internal from SCADA, and external, weather forecasts or energy market indexes) to predict asset operation and evaluate alternative strategies for supplying energy to the grid. This approach, in conjunction with energy storage technologies, allows the management system to optimise the production of the asset and also the sale of energy and the consequent RoI in short time (1-3 y) according to the nature of the plant.