Abstract
Researchers at NREL have developed a novel real-time control architecture to optimize the operation of DERs at residential, commercial, and industrial levels. The real-time system enables (portions of) feeders to emulate virtual power plants providing services to the rest of the grid, while ensuring satisfaction of electrical limits and maximizing customers’ benefits. This system can be integrated with legacy hardware and/or new advanced systems to optimally manage both individually-controlled DERs and aggregations of DERs. By virtue of the proposed engineering approach, the DERs collectively regulate the powers at an electrical point to respond to grid dispatch signals such as an automatic generation control, a ramping signal, or a 5-minute dispatch. Overall, this architecture allows end customers to minimize their payments and partake in grid operations while guaranteeing power quality in the distribution network.
- Developers:
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Dall-Anese, Emiliano [1]
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2018-02-14
- Project Type:
- Closed Source
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Programming Languages:
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MATLAB
- Licenses:
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Other (Commercial or Open-Source): https://www.federallabs.org/technology/real-time-optimization-of-distribution-level-energy-resources
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)Primary Award/Contract Number:AC36-08GO28308
- Code ID:
- 28678
- Site Accession Number:
- SWR-18-27, ROI-16-124
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Dall-Anese, Emiliano.
Real-Time Optimization of Distribution-level Energy Resources [SWR-18-27].
Computer Software.
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
14 Feb. 2018.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20190808.1.
Dall-Anese, Emiliano.
(2018, February 14).
Real-Time Optimization of Distribution-level Energy Resources [SWR-18-27].
[Computer software].
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190808.1.
Dall-Anese, Emiliano.
"Real-Time Optimization of Distribution-level Energy Resources [SWR-18-27]." Computer software.
February 14, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190808.1.
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abstractNote = {Researchers at NREL have developed a novel real-time control architecture to optimize the operation of DERs at residential, commercial, and industrial levels. The real-time system enables (portions of) feeders to emulate virtual power plants providing services to the rest of the grid, while ensuring satisfaction of electrical limits and maximizing customers’ benefits. This system can be integrated with legacy hardware and/or new advanced systems to optimally manage both individually-controlled DERs and aggregations of DERs. By virtue of the proposed engineering approach, the DERs collectively regulate the powers at an electrical point to respond to grid dispatch signals such as an automatic generation control, a ramping signal, or a 5-minute dispatch. Overall, this architecture allows end customers to minimize their payments and partake in grid operations while guaranteeing power quality in the distribution network.},
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