Summary

This Recommendation provides a framework and functional requirements for a greenhouse gas emission management system (GHGEMS) for virtual power plant (VPP) applications. The Recommendation defines a three-layer architecture consisting of a data layer, a computation layer and a management layer. The data layer supports multi-source data acquisition, pre-processing, storage. The computation layer supports greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting, energy efficiency assessment, greenhouse gas emission forecasting and greenhouse gas emission reduction contribution accounting. The management layer supports emission monitoring and visualization, decision support on greenhouse gas management, VPP dispatching coordination and user carbon disclosure. This Recommendation is intended to guide the construction and operation of GHGEMS for a variety of VPP operational scenarios.