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Study of Communication Boundaries of Primal-Dual-Based Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)

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OSTI ID:1957541
As the coordination of distributed energy resources becomes more necessary to provide grid services through a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS), studying the communication requirements for successful real-world, low-cost implementation becomes increasingly important. Specifically, this paper studies the necessary communication time resolutions between the different system components for a primal-dual-based DERMS, a highly developed DERMS framework. We design a metric to evaluate the functionality of a DERMS with respect to providing grid services. Using numerical simulations based on a real-world feeder in Colorado, we show that the upper bound on the time resolutions is on the order of minutes instead of the previously assumed order of seconds.
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:
1957541
Report Number(s):
NREL/PO-5D00-84904; MainId:85677; UUID:95fb659e-d52f-4722-9334-eba9a3cddcb8; MainAdminID:68761
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English