Zero Export Feeder Through Transactive Markets

Technical Report · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1871008· OSTI ID:1871008

Balamurugan, Sivasathya Pradha ^[1]; Cutler, Dylan ^[1]; Kwasnik, Ted ^[1]; Elgindy, Tarek ^[1]; Munankarmi, Prateek ^[1]; Maguire, Jeff ^[1]; Blonsky, Michael ^[1]; Ghosh, Shibani ^[1]; Chintala, Rohit ^[1]; Christensen, Dane ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

This project is aimed at creating a transactive energy market to address the challenges faced by utility providers when increasing distributed energy resource (DER) adoption in their service area. One major challenge is mitigating export back to the grid during times of excess production. The transactive energy market operates at the distribution level and balances the supply and demand on the feeder, thus maintaining a zero-energy export at the primary feeder head. The market participants in this case are the residential customers on the feeder, who bid into the market. Building controls are then optimized based on the settled price. Market performance was demonstrated in this study by simulating different levels of DER penetration on a selected Pepco feeder. The feeder successfully achieved a zero export while providing cost-effective electricity to the participants, demonstrating that this market design can enable high DER penetration on existing feeders.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Exelon Corporation; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• Other Award/Contract Number: TSA-19-01234
• OSTI ID: 1871008
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-5500-78673; MainId:32590; UUID:6c53cb6b-ea3a-46dd-bd74-b20be8a543e0; MainAdminID:64472
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DER
energy blockchain
transactive energy market