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

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As the coordination of distributed energy re-sources becomes more necessary to provide grid services through a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS), studying the communication requirements for suc-cessful 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 de-veloped 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 Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1973213
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5D00-86219; MainId:86992; UUID:6eb7d9f9-eb30-48f3-803f-7037cf8d0258; MainAdminID:69452
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 16-19 January 2023, Washington, D.C.; Related Information: 83995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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