Site-Specific Evaluation of Microgrid Controller Using Controller and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop

Kumaraguru Prabakar; Annabelle Pratt; John Fossum; JIng Wang; Brian Miller; Martha Symko-Davies; Muhammad Usman; Thomas Bialek

doi:10.1109/IECON.2019.8927354

Site-Specific Evaluation of Microgrid Controller Using Controller and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop

Kumaraguru Prabakar, Annabelle Pratt, John Fossum, JIng Wang, Brian Miller, Martha Symko-Davies, Muhammad Usman, Thomas Bialek

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Abstract

Microgrid assets are built by utilities to improve the resilience and reliability of segments of the distribution system. Controllers with advanced capabilities will operate and control these microgrids with diverse energy technologies, which vary from inverter-based photovoltaics and energy storage systems to conventional diesel generators. There are multiple challenges to building a microgrid controller for a site because of the unique requirements presented by the controllable and uncontrollable elements in a specific microgrid. There are also challenges to testing the performance of the microgrid controller for such unique microgrids. This paper presents the controller and power-hardware-in-the-loop evaluation platform built to enable site-specific evaluation for a microgrid as well as the test cases used to evaluate the operation of a microgrid controller for a specific site. Finally, this paper presents the results from a subset of the experiments performed to evaluate the microgrid controller.

Original language	American English
Pages	6463-6468
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927354 https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927354
State	Published - Oct 2019
Event	45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 14 Oct 2019 → 17 Oct 2019

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Conference	45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	14/10/19 → 17/10/19

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See NREL/CP-5D00-72770 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-77214

Keywords

Controller-hardware-in-the-loop
IEEE 20308
microgrid controller
microgrids
power-hardware-in-the-loop

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Prabakar, K., Pratt, A., Fossum, J., Wang, JI., Miller, B., Symko-Davies, M., Usman, M., & Bialek, T. (2019). Site-Specific Evaluation of Microgrid Controller Using Controller and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop. 6463-6468. Paper presented at 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927354, https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927354

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