DOE INTEGRATE Project

Dispatch of traditional and new grid edge devices

Presented by: Scott Koehler

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 Integrated Network
DOE INTEGRATE Project Testbed for Energy
Dispatch of traditional utility and grid edge devices Grid Research
and Technology
Experimentation

Schematic view with resource grouping

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 IT/OT Integration
Providing situation awareness of the distribution grid

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 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

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 DERMS Evolution

DER Monitoring DER Operational DER Economic

DER Modeling
& Manual Control Control Control

• Modeling • Monitoring • Volt/VAR/Watt • Market

various types various types of control management
of DER DER • DER integration
• DG monitoring • Forecast DER Dashboard (Ancillary
Managing • Renewable output • Look ahead services)
DER • DER optimized
forecast in DG • Hidden load on price signals
report • Manual control

• Planning app • Hosting • Web app for • Processing

Enabling for analysis of capacity hosting capacity customer
new customer analysis connection
DER requests
connections
• Expanded • Web app for
customer
existing
engagement
planning apps

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 Convergence with Demand Response

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 Standardizing Distributed Resource Integration

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

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 Eco-Idea Project
Data-enhanced hierarchical control architecture Enhanced Control, Optimization, and
Integration of Distributed Energy
Applications (Eco-Idea)

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 Structuring DMS Project
ADMS integration with microgrid controller

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

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