Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model Plus (DER-CAM+), Version 1.0.0

Software · Thu Mar 24 04:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1245449

Stadler, Michael; Cardorso, Goncalo; Mashayekh, Salman; DeForest, Nicholas

DER-CAM+ v1.0.0 is internally referred to as DER-CAM v5.0.0. Due to fundamental changes from previous versions, a new name (DER-CAM+) will be used for DER-CAM version 5.0.0 and above. DER-CAM+ is a Decision Support Tool for Decentralized Energy Systems that has been tailored for microgrid applications, and now explicitly considers electrical and thermal networks within a microgrid, ancillary services, and operating reserve. DER-CAM was initially created as an exclusively economic energy model, able to find the cost minimizing combination and operation profile of a set of DER technologies that meet energy loads of a building or microgrid for a typical test year. The previous versions of DER-CAM were formulated without modeling the electrical/thermal networks within the microgrid, and hence, used aggregate single-node approaches. Furthermore, they were not able to consider operating reserve constraints, and microgrid revenue streams from participating in ancillary services markets. This new version DER-CAM+ considers these issues by including electrical power flow and thermal flow equations and constraints in the microgrid, revenues from various ancillary services markets, and operating reserve constraints.

• Short Name / Acronym: DER-CAM+; 004669MLTPL00
• Site Accession Number: 2016-075
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Windows, Linux, or web browser
• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Contributing Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1245449
• Country of Origin: United States