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Experience Report: First Steps towards a Microservice Architecture for Virtual Power Plants in the Energy Sector

Authors Manuel Wickert , Sven Liebehentze , Albert Zündorf

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  • Software and its engineering → Software design engineering
  • Hardware → Smart grid
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  • Microservices
  • VPP
  • Virtual Power Plants
  • Domain Driven Design

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Abstract

Virtual Power Plants provide energy sector stakeholders a useful abstraction for distributed energy resources by aggregating them. Software systems enabling this are critical infrastructure and must handle a fast-growing number of distributed energy resources. Modern architecture such as Microservice architecture can therefore be a good choice for dealing with such scalable systems where changing market and regulation requirements are part of every day business. In this report, we outline first experiences gained during the change from the existing Virtual Power Plant software monolith to Microservice architecture.

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Manuel Wickert, Sven Liebehentze, and Albert Zündorf. Experience Report: First Steps towards a Microservice Architecture for Virtual Power Plants in the Energy Sector. In Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 78, pp. 2:1-2:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.2

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Manuel Wickert
  • Fraunhofer IEE, Kassel, Germany
Sven Liebehentze
  • Fraunhofer IEE, Kassel, Germany
Albert Zündorf
  • University of Kassel, Germany

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