Analysis of Hybrid Smart Grid Communication Network Designs for Distributed Energy Resources Coordination

Conference · Thu Aug 08 04:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2019.8791581· OSTI ID:1567022

Zhang, Jianhua ^[1]; Hasandka, Adarsh ^[1]; Alam, S M Shafiul ^[1]; Elgindy, Tarek ^[1]; Florita, Anthony R. ^[2]; Hodge, Brian S ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. University of Colorado

The rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) has prompted increasing interest in the monitoring and control of DERs through hybrid smart grid communications. This paper develops a new method to investigate the impact of DER penetrations and applications on hybrid communications network designs. A suite of hybrid communications simulation models are developed using Network Simulator 3 (ns-3). The smart grid communications topologies with different DER penetrations are built on the utility-scale distribution grid. The simulation results show that (i) with increasing photovoltaic penetrations, nine hybrid communications designs achieve the expected latency albeit with higher packet loss rate; and (ii) both BPLC-Ethernet and BPLC-WiMAX designs can accommodate the DER applications with a high data rate up to 100 Mbps.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1567022
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5D00-74975
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DER communication
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hybrid communication architecture
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