Performance Evaluation of an Advanced Distributed Energy Resource Management Algorithm: Preprint
This paper presents performance evaluation of a new distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) algorithm via an advanced hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform. The HIL platform provides realistic testing in a laboratory environment, including the accurate modeling of sub-transmission and distribution network, the DERMS software controller, and 84 power hardware photovoltaics (PV) inverters, standard communication protocols, and a capacitor bank controller. The DERMS algorithm is also called, Grid-Optimization of Solar (GO-Solar) platform which includes predictive state estimation and online multiple objective optimization (OMOO) to dispatch the legacy devices and distributed energy resources (e.g., PV). The voltage regulation performance is evaluated under three scenarios, volt-var smart inverter (baseline), 100% and 30% PV being controlled. The results show that the GO-Solar platform controlling 30% PVs maybe the best option in terms of control performance and cost for implementation and installation of the infrastructures.
- 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:
- 1842977
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5D00-80109; MainId:42312; UUID:3c9a0194-7ab2-471d-b0f9-a081795d0103; MainAdminID:63719
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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