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Microgrid & DER Controller Symposium

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Feb 16

Microgrid & DER Controller Symposium

By The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

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Thu, February 16, 2017, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST

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MIT Samberg Conference Center 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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The Microgrid & 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 & DER controller vendors, microgrid developers, energy infrastructure decision makers, utility engineers and state and national energy leaders to:

  • Introduce the latest developments in microgrid & DER controllers and real-time power system simulation technologies
  • Demonstrate functionality of existing microgrid & DER controllers on a realistic community microgrid
  • Foster connections between microgrid vendors and developers, distribution utilities and distribution utility engineers responsible for DER deployment and interconnection


MICROGRID & DER CONTROLLER LIVE OPERATION

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:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Eaton Corporation
Schneider Electric
General Electric


HIL SHOWCASE PARTICIPANTS:

Typhoon HIL
OPAL - RT Technologies
Speedgoat/Mathworks
Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) - Florida State University
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
MIT Smart Grid in a Room Simulator (SGRS)
RTDS/Nayak Corporation
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)



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, & 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 & 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 & 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 & Load Prioritization

Kendall Nowocin, MIT


3:10 pm – 3:50 pm HILLTOP Demonstration #4 (Eaton controller on Typhoon HIL)→ Focus: Protection & 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 & 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




The HIL Platform is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability




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”: http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/engineering/Publications/TR-1203.pdf

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: https://github.com/PowerSystemsHIL

New developments will be presented at the event on February 16.



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For questions please contact Jessica Ridlen at jridlen@masscec.com.

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