Microgrid Design Toolkit [Slides]
This presentation provides an Introduction to the Microgrid Design Toolkit and how users can employ it.
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This presentation provides an Introduction to the Microgrid Design Toolkit and how users can employ it.
The Energy to Communities (E2C) peer-learning cohort program provides technical assistance to groups of 15 community entities around a common energy topic over the course of 6 months. Every month, participants join a virtual meeting where they hear from experts and exchange strategies and best practices with their peers. This cohort, "Successful Energy Project Implementation" will explore common challenges in implementing energy projects and learn strategies to turn project plans into reality. Each participant will focus on a local energy project or priority as a cornerstone for their learning throughout the series. This presentation overviews the basics of developing solar, microgrid and resilience projects with emphasis on understanding the project development process.
Energy Security: Microgrid Planning and Design presentation to be given at the 2012 WREF in Denver, CO
This presentation by Mike Simpson of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) describes NREL's microgrid vehicle-to-grid charging station interconnection testing.
This brochure features the ESIF's microgrid testing capabilities.
This paper proposes a distribution optimal power flow (D-OPF) model for the operation of microgrids. The proposed model minimizes not only the operating cost, including fuel cost, purchasing cost and demand charge, but also several performance indices, including voltage deviation, network power loss and power factor. It co-optimizes the real and reactive power form distributed generators (DGs) and batteries considering their capacity and power factor limits. The D-OPF is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). Numerical simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed model.
This poster provides a high-level overview of the design of a microgrid transition controller II: system recovery under abnormal conditions.
This presentation provides an overview of the diesel generator controller evaluation via controller-hardware-in-the-loop for various microgrid operation modes.
Poster based upon development of a Raspberry PI implementation of the swing equation for combined microgrid interactions
This presentation provides an overview of the Borrego Springs community microgrid.
This poster provides an overview of site-specific evaluation of microgrid controller using controller- and power-hardware-in-the-loop.
This presentation provides an overview of site-specific evaluation of microgrid controller using controller- and power-hardware-in-the-loop.
Advanced Turbine Control for Distributed Wind Deployments: The Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience, and Advanced Controls Launchpad (MIRACL) research initiative is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and led by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia). The initiative’s controls research seeks to expand the benefits from distributed wind energy assets beyond solely providing low-cost power directly to consumers. To make these turbines operate more effectively, there is a need for more advanced ways to control them—allowing power companies, businesses, and energy consumers to take advantage of some of the unique technical characteristics of wind energy.
The paper presents the results of an industry-academic collaboration between ABB, Duke Energy and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that has developed and demonstrated a cyberphysical resilient control and communication architecture for deployment of multiple microgrid networks, as well as retrofitting the existing distribution grids by increasing DER penetration levels.
This presentation provides an overview of grid-edge energy resources for resilient community microgrids.
Recent high-impact events such as hurricanes and wildfires have resulted in the loss of utility grid power to federal sites, highlighting the need for energy system resilience. To sustain critical functions, site loads may need to operate during an electric grid outage or at least have power restored quickly after the event. A microgrid can provide reliable backup power to critical loads when electric utility power is interrupted, and may also provide value during normal operations.
This presentation talks about design protection schemes of 100% renewable microgrids using traditional protection and data-driven protection.
This presentation covers the use technology readiness levels to convey the importance of simulation, and experiments for de-risking microgrid field deployment.