Optimal Energy Management of Sustainable Greenhouses in Smart Grid

加拿大致力于通过向更可持续和更多样化的经济过渡来解决气候变化问题，这取决于它的一些最大的利益攸关方，包括农业综合企业的利益攸关方。控制环境农业的技术进步导致了大规模温室作业的兴起，以及提供当地全年新鲜农产品、观赏植物、树木和大麻供应的能力。尽管这些温室的规模以及设备和围护结构设计的热力性能的显著改善导致了更大的资本和能源效率，但该行业面临着与能源成本不断上升以及进口竞争和大型零售商造成的不确定或低市场价格相关的重大挑战。为了努力降低能源成本，可持续的温室作业除了储存能力外，还需要整合可再生/替代能源。这带来了两个截然不同的挑战或机遇：智能地优化计价器后的能源资源，以及在互动电网时代运行交互式分配连接的温室能源系统。为了抓住这一机遇，我们将开发形成Drax ISO-Pomphrey Industries Corporation第一个人工能源智能的理论基础，以探索和利用智能电网中大规模温室作业的关键多维流程，通过参与当前和拟议的辅助市场来获得和测试新的收入来源。近年来，温室因其巨大的发电能力和负荷需求，一直被视为维持电网运行性能和弹性的辅助服务提供商。我们的行业合作伙伴将在加拿大艾伯塔省的一个6,000平方米的温室设施中对智能能源管理方案和辅助服务市场温室操作的技术能力(例如，电压调节、频率调节和谐波抑制)进行分析、建模并嵌入试点。

Canada's commitment to addressing climate change through a transition to a more sustainable and diversified economy rests on the shoulders of some of its biggest stakeholders including the ones in agribusiness. Technological advancements in controlled environment agriculture has led to the rise of large-scale greenhouse operations and the capacity to provide year-round local supplies of fresh produce, ornamentals, trees, and cannabis. Although the scale of these greenhouses and dramatic improvements in the thermodynamic performance of equipment and envelope designs have led to greater capital and energy efficiency, the industry faces significant challenges related to escalating energy costs, and indeterminate or low market prices caused by import competition and large retailers. In an effort to reduce energy costs, sustainable greenhouse operations will need to integrate renewable/alternative sources of energy in addition to storage capacity. This presents two distinct challenges or opportunities: intelligent optimization of behind-the-meter energy resources and the operation of an interactive distribution-connected greenhouse energy system in a transactive power grid era. In order to seize this opportunity, we will develop the theoretical foundations forming DRAX ISO - Pomphrey Industries Corporation's first artificial energy intelligence for exploring and exploiting the critical multi-dimensional process flows of a large-scale greenhouse operation in a smart grid, to derive and test new revenue streams through the participation of its energy resources in current and proposed ancillary markets. In recent years, greenhouses have been considered as ancillary service providers to maintain operational performance and resiliency of the power grid, due to their significant power generation capacity and load demand. Intelligent energy management schemes and the technological capabilities for greenhouse operations in ancillary service markets (e.g., for voltage regulation, frequency regulation, and harmonic mitigation) will be analyzed, modelled and embedded for pilot by our industry partner at a 6,000 sqm greenhouse facility located in Alberta, Canada.