Optimal Energy Management of Sustainable Greenhouses in Smart Grid

加拿大承诺通过向更加可持续和多样化的经济转型来应对气候变化，这一承诺落在了包括农业综合企业在内的一些最大利益相关者的肩上。可控环境农业的技术进步导致了大规模温室作业的兴起，以及全年为当地提供新鲜农产品、观赏植物、树木和大麻的能力。尽管这些温室的规模以及设备和外壳设计的热力学性能的显着改善导致了更大的资本和能源效率，但该行业面临着与不断上升的能源成本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。为了降低能源成本，除了储存能力外，可持续温室作业还需要整合可再生/替代能源。这就提出了两个截然不同的挑战或机遇：电表后能源资源的智能优化和交互式分布式连接温室能源系统在交互电网时代的运行。为了抓住这个机会，我们将发展形成DRAX ISO -庞弗雷工业公司的第一个人工能源智能的理论基础，用于探索和开发智能电网中大规模温室操作的关键多维流程，通过参与其能源资源在当前和拟议的辅助市场中获得和测试新的收入流。近年来，温室由于其巨大的发电能力和负荷需求，已被视为维持电网运行性能和弹性的辅助服务提供商。智能能源管理方案和辅助服务市场（例如电压调节、频率调节和谐波缓解）的温室操作技术能力将由我们的行业合作伙伴在加拿大阿尔伯塔省一个6000平方米的温室设施中进行分析、建模和嵌入试点。

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.