A Smart and Flexible Microgrid with a Low-cost Scalable Open-source Controller (Final Report)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
This report contains information regarding the activities carried out in the project "A Smart and Flexible Microgrid with a Low-cost Scalable Open-source Controller. The project aims at developing a community-based flexible microgrid (FMG) with smart grid features, including multiple utility feeders and dynamic boundaries that utilize intelligent switches and ultra-high-speed communication links already in a smart grid. The project also aims at developing a corresponding controller for such an FMG with low cost and high scalability. With distributed renewable energy resources (DERs) and the intelligent microgrid controller, the FMG will achieve aggressive emission reduction, increased energy use efficiency, and reliability improvement goals. The FMG and its controller design will be scalable for different geographic areas, load sizes, distributed generation source number and types, and even multiple MGs within a distribution electric power system. In order to achieve these project objectives, three main development tasks were carried out: FMG design, FMG controller development, and FMG controller testing. The fourth task was technology to market.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0000665
- OSTI ID:
- 1969602
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UTK--0000665
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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