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Simple electric utility platform: A hardware/software solution for operating emergent microgrids

Ashray Manur, Giri Venkataramanan and David Sehloff

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 210, issue C, 748-763

Abstract: Along with the technical feasibility of microgrids, the importance of supervisory communications, computing, and control (CCC) systems that are necessary to operate a microgrid in a stable and economically feasible manner have been firmly established in the literature. While several investigators have proposed and demonstrated algorithms and applications of CCC, the functional entities and responsibility centers for realizing CCC within microgrids in the context of multiple independent customers and distribution system entities have not been situated and/or studied. In this context, the term emergent microgrid may be used to define an electrical network that consists of local generation, loads, and storage. Such a grid has the potential to be clustered as a microgrid, but does not have all the CCC features to become a full-fledged microgrid. In this paper, a simple electric utility platform (SEUP) that is an end-to-end solution with all the hardware/software interfaces and components necessary for augmenting emergent microgrids with CCC into full-fledged microgrids is presented. SEUP abstracts the details of sensing and CCC for the microgrid developers, installers, operators and end-users to provide a seamless system. SEUP is distinctive from other CCC platforms in that it is entirely based on publicly available infrastructure resources (wireless cellular networks, internet and cloud computing) without any intellectual property restrictions. The paper introduces the functional roles, main architecture, components and security features of SEUP along with the results from a sample application case of a laboratory-scale power system.

Keywords: Microgrids; End-to-end platform; IoT; Cloud; Embedded sensing; Load scheduling; Critical peak pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.073

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