An intelligent energy router for managing behind-the-meter resources and assets

Conference · 01 May 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT45199.2020.9087702· OSTI ID:1649349

Chinthavali, Madhu Sudhan ^[1]; Starke, Michael ^[1]; Krishna Moorthy, Radha ^[1]

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1. ORNL

With increase in distributed energy resources (DERs) and smart loads, each energy resource and load need a separate power conversion system leading to complex coordination and interaction, reduced energy conversion efficiency, coordinating compliance to grid standards (IEEE 1547) from multiple sources, reduced security. Also, multiple vendors with legacy system designs and proprietary communications interfaces result in redundancy and increase in cost of power electronics systems. This paper presents an energy router concept for buildings applications which provides autonomous power flow between sources and loads with a novel agent-based software interface.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1649349
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2020 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) - Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States of America - 1/17/2020 10:00:00 AM-1/20/2020 10:00:00 AM
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English