Distributed hybrid renewable energy power plant and methods, systems, and comptuer readable media for controlling a distributed hybrid renewable energy power plant

A system for controlling a distributed hybrid renewable energy power plant, comprising:

• a plurality of grid interface boxes for measuring power output from a plurality of distributed energy resources and for regulating the measured power output to be delivered to a power distribution grid;
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• a plant front end comprising:
• a protocol conversion module for receiving, from the plurality of grid interface boxes, inputs indicating the measured power output;
• a plurality of model instances for modeling the statistical availability of each of the plurality of distributed energy resources;
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• an aggregation engine for aggregating the measured power outputs and statistical availabilities, and for presenting the aggregated power outputs and statistical availabilities as an aggregated distributed energy resource to a utility energy management system (EMS).

A method for controlling a distributed hybrid renewable energy power plant, comprising:

• receiving inputs indicating the measured power output originating from a plurality of distributed energy resources;
• modeling the statistical availability of each of the plurality of distributed energy resources;
• aggregating the measured power outputs and statistical availabilities;
• and
• presenting the aggregated power outputs and statistical availabilities as an aggregated distributed energy resource to a utility energy management system (EMS).

A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer control the computer to perform steps comprising:

• receiving inputs indicating the measured power output originating from a plurality of distributed energy resources;
• modeling the statistical availability of each of the plurality of distributed energy resources;
• aggregating the measured power outputs and statistical availabilities;
• and
• presenting the aggregated power outputs and statistical availabilities as an aggregated distributed energy resource to a utility energy management system (EMS).