Project Hestia will make distributed energy resources — including residential rooftop solar, battery storage, and virtual power plant-ready, consumer-facing software — available to more American homeowners.
In light of the growing urgency surrounding energy and environmental concerns, this paper presents a two-layer iterative energy dispatch strategy tailored for a multi-energy-flow virtual power plant (VPP) operating within the distribution power grid. The proposed strategy unfolds in two key phases.