Microgrid & DER Controller Symposium

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is a state economic development agency dedicated to accelerating the growth of the clean energy sector across the Commonwealth to spur job creation, deliver statewide environmental benefits and to secure long-term economic growth for the people of Massachusetts.MassCEC’s mission is to grow the state’s clean energy economy while helping to meet the Commonwealth’s clean energy, climate and economic development goals.

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The Microgrid &amp; DER Controller Symposium showcases an engineering capability-- a real-time hardware-in-the-loop testbed -- that provides a fundamentally new way for utility distribution system engineers to do their design, analysis, integration, testing, and certification. Microgrid controllers are the most complex example of solutions utility distribution system engineers will deploy in coming years. The Symposium will show how a HIL test platform can be used to develop complex microgrid systems.
This Symposium will bring together Microgrid &amp; DER controller vendors, microgrid developers, energy infrastructure decision makers, utility engineers and state and national energy leaders to:
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<LI>Introduce the latest developments in microgrid &amp; DER controllers and real-time power system simulation technologies</LI>
<LI>Demonstrate functionality of existing microgrid &amp; DER controllers on a realistic community microgrid</LI>
<LI>Foster connections between microgrid vendors and developers, distribution utilities and distribution utility engineers responsible for DER deployment and interconnection</LI>
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<H3> MICROGRID &amp; DER CONTROLLER LIVE OPERATION</H3>
Throughout the afternoon, microgrid controller vendors will showcase real-time operation of their controllers on a microgrid hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) demonstration platform. Symposium participants will have an opportunity to view these demonstrations operating a multi-megawatt, distribution-scale microgrid.
MICROGRID CONTROLLER LIVE DEMO PARTICIPANTS:    <A HREF="https://selinc.com/solutions/microgrid-control-systems/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)</A> <A HREF="http://www.eaton.com/Eaton/index.htm" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eaton Corporation </A> <A HREF="http://www.schneider-electric.com/ww/en/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Schneider Electric</A> <A HREF="http://www.ge.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">General Electric </A> HIL SHOWCASE PARTICIPANTS:  <A HREF="https://www.typhoon-hil.com/applications/microgrid-testing" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Typhoon HIL</A> <A HREF="http://www.opal-rt.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OPAL - RT Technologies</A> <A HREF="https://www.speedgoat.ch/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Speedgoat/Mathworks </A> <A HREF="http://www.caps.fsu.edu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) - Florida State University</A> <A HREF="http://www.ait.ac.at/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) </A> MIT Smart Grid in a Room Simulator (SGRS) <A HREF="https://www.rtds.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">RTDS/Nayak Corporation</A><A HREF="http://www.nayakcorp.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> </A><A HREF="https://selinc.com/solutions/microgrid-control-systems/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)</A>
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 AGENDA:
8:00 am – 8:45 am       Breakfast and Registration
 
8:45 am – 9:00 am       Welcome and Introduction 
Steve Pike, CEO, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
 
9:00 am – 9:30 am      Keynote Address - Federal Microgrid Research
Jim Reilly, on behalf of Dan Ton, Program Manager, Power Systems Engineering Research and Development, Office of Electricity Delivery and Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy
 
9:30 am – 10:00 am        Introduction to the Microgrid Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop Laboratory Testbed and Open Platform (HILLTOP)
Erik Limpaecher, Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 
10:00 am – 10:40 am      A Simulated Day in the Life of a Microgrid Controller / HILLTOP Demonstration #1 (SEL controller on OPAL-RT) → Focus: Black Start Islanding, &amp; Fast Load Shedding 
Reynaldo Salcedo-Ulerio, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 
10:40 am – 11:10 am     Break / HIL Showcase 
HILLTOP Demonstration #2 (GE controller on Typhoon HIL)→ Focus: DER Integration
Edwin Fonkwe, Typhoon HIL
11:10 am – 11:30 am      Evaluation of Microgrid Controller Performance Results 
 
Brian Miller, NREL
 
11:30 am – 11:50 pm    EPRI Update on Latest Research &amp; Testing of Control Systems 
Arindam Maitra, Technical Executive, EPRI 
 
11:50 pm – 12:10pm        Integrating Microgrid and other Device Controllers with Utility Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) 
Carlos Nouel, Vice President, National Grid
 
12:10 pm – 1:10 pm       Lunch / HIL Showcase 
 
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm         Smart Grid in a Room Simulator (SGRS) Plug-and-Play Design and Operation of Microgrids 
Professor Marija Ilic, MIT / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm        Lessons Learned from Hardware in the Loop Testing of Microgrid Control &amp; Protection Systems 
Scott Manson, Principal Engineer, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories 
 
2:10 pm – 3:10 pm        Break / HIL Showcase
HILLTOP Demonstration #3 (Schneider controller on OPAL-RT) → Focus: Reconfiguration &amp; Load Prioritization  
Kendall Nowocin, MIT
 
3:10 pm – 3:50 pm       HILLTOP Demonstration #4 (Eaton controller on Typhoon HIL)→ Focus: Protection &amp; DER Dispatch Ivan Celanovic, Typhoon HIL 
      
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm        How to Participate in the Electric Power Hardware-in-the-loop Controls Collaborative (EPHCC) and Open Source Repository
Chris Smith, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 
4:20 pm – 4:40 pm        Opportunities to Advance State of the Art in Microgrid Controls &amp; DER Integration 
Babak Enayati, National Grid Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Erik Limpaecher, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm       HIL Showcase and Networking Reception
 
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The HIL Platform is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
 
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Click here to read about the simulations during the first Symposium on October 1, 2015 in the report "Development of a Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop Power Systems Simulation Platform to Evaluate Commercial Microgrid Controllers”: <A HREF="http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/engineering/Publications/TR-1203.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/engineering/Publications/TR-1203.pdf</A>
For full technical details, including DER and power system component models, load profiles, test scripts, C-HIL device interface designs, unit test scripts, and documentation, please visit this GitHub repository: <A HREF="https://github.com/PowerSystemsHIL" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/PowerSystemsHIL</A>
New developments will be presented at the event on February 16.
 
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For questions please contact Jessica Ridlen at <A HREF="mailto:jridlen@masscec.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">jridlen@masscec.com</A>.

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