DOE INTEGRATE Project - NREL · report •Planning app for analysis of new customer connections •Expanded existing planning apps •Monitoring various types of DER •Forecast DER

DOE INTEGRATE Project Dispatch of traditional and new grid edge devices

Presented by: Scott Koehler

Confidential Property of Schneider Electric

Page 2 Confidential Property of Schneider Electric |

DOE INTEGRATE Project Dispatch of traditional utility and grid edge devices

Schematic view with resource grouping

Integrated Network

Testbed for Energy

Grid Research

and Technology

Experimentation


IT/OT Integration Providing situation awareness of the distribution grid


DER in Advanced Applications

• Volt/VAR Optimization • Objectives – Power consumption reduction, Energy losses reduction, Customer voltage

improvement, Medium voltage improvement, Power factor improvement, Minimized operations cost

• FLISR and Large Area Restoration • Planned and unplanned switching operations

• Adaptive Relay Protection • Protection Relays – Overcurrent, Distance, Differential, Reclosers and Fuses

• Modes – Operation, Sensitivity, Coordination and Settings

• Network Reconfiguration • Objectives – Feeder load balancing, Transformer load balancing, Minimized energy losses,

Reliability

• Network Planning • Applications – DER Connections, Power Forecasting, Hosting Capacity, Network Reinforcement,

Network Automation, Capacitor and Voltage Regulator Placement


• Modeling

various types of DER

• DG monitoring • Renewable

forecast in DG report

• Planning app for analysis of new customer connections

• Expanded existing planning apps

• Monitoring

various types of DER

• Forecast DER output

• Hidden load • Manual control

• Hosting

capacity analysis

• Volt/VAR/Watt

control • DER

Dashboard • Look ahead

• Web app for hosting capacity

• Market

management integration (Ancillary services)

• DER optimized on price signals

• Processing

customer connection requests

• Web app for customer engagement

DER Modeling DER Monitoring

& Manual Control DER Operational

Control DER Economic

Control

Managing

DER

Enabling

DER

DERMS Evolution


Convergence with Demand Response


NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF)

Current DER Use Cases • Over voltage

• Under voltage

• Reverse power flow

• Excessive load

• VAR support

Future DER Use Cases • Phantom load

• Voltage flicker

• Abnormal switching

• Voltage hunting

• Regulator runaway

Standardizing Distributed Resource Integration





Eco-Idea Project Data-enhanced hierarchical control architecture Enhanced Control, Optimization, and

Integration of Distributed Energy Applications (Eco-Idea)


Structuring DMS Project ADMS integration with microgrid controller


ADMS Data Remediation Project Network Data Model Quality versus Telemetry (Sensors)

Documents

DOE INTEGRATE Project - NREL · report •Planning app for analysis of new customer connections •Expanded existing planning apps •Monitoring various types of DER •Forecast DER