A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge

Essakiappan, Somasundaram; Chowdhury, Prithwiraj Roy; Schneider, Kevin P.; Laval, Stuart; Prabakar, Kumaraguru; Manjrekar, Madhav D.; Velaga, Yaswanth Nag; Shepard, Neil; Hambrick, Joshua; Ollis, Ben

doi:10.1109/OAJPE.2021.3103496

Title: A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge

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Electric power systems have experienced large increases in the number of intelligent, connected and controllable devices being deployed, leading to a high degree of distributed intelligence at the grid-edge. These devices, both utility-owned and consumer-owned, include renewable generation, energy storage, remote switches, voltage regulators, and smart controllable loads. These new devices provide significant potential for increased operational flexibility that can be leveraged to achieve system reconfiguration, resiliency improvements, power quality improvements, and distribution system automation. However, two significant challenges must be addressed before these assets can be leveraged for operations: interoperability and system level validation prior to deployment. Because of the complexity of distributed control systems, and their interactions with legacy centralized controls, a purely simulations-based approach for pre-deployment validation is not sufficient. It requires hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing to emulate hardware devices and evaluate their performance. Additionally, securely integrating multiple test facilities at utility operators and vendors can enable the rapid scale-up of evaluation platforms and remove the need for multiple expensive standalone installations. Presented in this paper, is the development of a multi-site evaluation platform that employs Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), distributed control devices, real-time HIL assets, secure communication links, and protocol adapters. The testbed has been developedmore »« less

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Publication Date:: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2021

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1829536

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1829538; OSTI ID: 1883988

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830; AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy Journal Volume: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2687-7910

Publisher:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; distributed control; distributed energy resources; hardware-in-the-loop; microgrids; power system resiliency

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                    Essakiappan, Somasundaram, Chowdhury, Prithwiraj Roy, Schneider, Kevin P., Laval, Stuart, Prabakar, Kumaraguru, Manjrekar, Madhav D., Velaga, Yaswanth Nag, Shepard, Neil, Hambrick, Joshua, and Ollis, Ben. A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge.  United States: N. p., 2021. 
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                    Essakiappan, Somasundaram, Chowdhury, Prithwiraj Roy, Schneider, Kevin P., Laval, Stuart, Prabakar, Kumaraguru, Manjrekar, Madhav D., Velaga, Yaswanth Nag, Shepard, Neil, Hambrick, Joshua, & Ollis, Ben. A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/OAJPE.2021.3103496

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                    Essakiappan, Somasundaram, Chowdhury, Prithwiraj Roy, Schneider, Kevin P., Laval, Stuart, Prabakar, Kumaraguru, Manjrekar, Madhav D., Velaga, Yaswanth Nag, Shepard, Neil, Hambrick, Joshua, and Ollis, Ben. Fri .  
"A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/OAJPE.2021.3103496.

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  title        = {A Multi-Site Networked Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Evaluation of Interoperability and Distributed Intelligence at Grid-Edge},

  author       = {Essakiappan, Somasundaram and Chowdhury, Prithwiraj Roy and Schneider, Kevin P. and Laval, Stuart and Prabakar, Kumaraguru and Manjrekar, Madhav D. and Velaga, Yaswanth Nag and Shepard, Neil and Hambrick, Joshua and Ollis, Ben},

  abstractNote = {Electric power systems have experienced large increases in the number of intelligent, connected and controllable devices being deployed, leading to a high degree of distributed intelligence at the grid-edge. These devices, both utility-owned and consumer-owned, include renewable generation, energy storage, remote switches, voltage regulators, and smart controllable loads. These new devices provide significant potential for increased operational flexibility that can be leveraged to achieve system reconfiguration, resiliency improvements, power quality improvements, and distribution system automation. However, two significant challenges must be addressed before these assets can be leveraged for operations: interoperability and system level validation prior to deployment. Because of the complexity of distributed control systems, and their interactions with legacy centralized controls, a purely simulations-based approach for pre-deployment validation is not sufficient. It requires hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing to emulate hardware devices and evaluate their performance. Additionally, securely integrating multiple test facilities at utility operators and vendors can enable the rapid scale-up of evaluation platforms and remove the need for multiple expensive standalone installations. Presented in this paper, is the development of a multi-site evaluation platform that employs Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), distributed control devices, real-time HIL assets, secure communication links, and protocol adapters. The testbed has been developed at three sites, with one site hosting the ADMS and the other two hosting HIL capabilities. This platform uses standards-based approaches and open-source tools, and hence can serve as a template for other researchers and institutions to implement their multi-site evaluation frameworks for pre-deployment testing.},

  doi          = {10.1109/OAJPE.2021.3103496},

  journal      = {IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 8,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2021},

  month        = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2021}

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