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Table 3 The main control strategies of VESS in the previous studies

From: Review of modeling and control strategy of thermostatically controlled loads for virtual energy storage system

 Application area

Main function

Main control strategies

 Microgrid

Smoothing the tie-line power fluctuations

Coordinated control based on Butterworth filters [52];

Continuous state constraints-based optimal control strategy [47].

Economic dispatch

Optimal dispatching strategy considering combined cooling-heating-power microgrid [53];

Dynamic economic dispatch model [22].

 Main network

Frequency regulation

Coordination control strategy considering both primary and secondary frequency regulations [54];

Priority-stack-based control scheme [46];

Fuzzy control strategy [44].

Reducing uncertainties from renewable energies

New demand response programs considering VESS [55].

Maintaining voltage stability

Hierarchical dispatch strategy [56].