Composing Power Flow Patterns through Coordinated Dispatch of Energy Packets

The increasing share of distributed renewable generation and electrification poses challenges to the existing power grid and its operation. To address these challenges, the concept of an Energy Packet Grid (EP Grid) has been proposed that uses selected internet design principles for power grids. This paper builds upon the EP Grid architecture and explores the shaping of power flows through a coordinated dispatch of energy packets. It introduces parallel energy packet transfers to maintain constant power over specific durations and to improve the approximation of continuous load or supply curves. A scenario manager is integrated into the architecture to coordinate specified sequences of energy packet transfers. Measurements demonstrate two scenarios of possible energy packet sequences.