Integration of IEC 61850 into a Distributed Energy Resources system in a smart green building

Huang, Rui; Lee, Eun-Kyu; Chu, Chi-Cheng; Gadh, Rajit

doi:10.1109/pesgm.2014.6938897

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“…A utility company can manage EV charging time and rates, gather EV-detailed meter data, and, thus, implement ADR programs. Authors in [15] integrate communication protocols including OpenADR and IEC 61850 (International Electrotechnical Commission) into a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) system consisting of solar panels and energy storage units. Industrial ADR applications include an ancillary service.…”

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confidence: 99%

Experiencing Commercialized Automated Demand Response Services with a Small Building Customer in Energy Market

Lee

2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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An Automated Demand Response is the most fundamental energy service that contributes to balancing the power demand with the supply, in which it realizes extensive interoperations between the power consumers and the suppliers. The OpenADR specification has been developed to facilitate the service communications, and several facilities offer primitive forms of services in a retail market. However, few researches have reported the details of such a real-world service yet, and thus we are still unaware of how it works exactly. Instead, we rely on our textbooks to design next generations of the ADR service. To overcome the discrepancy of our understanding, this paper shares our hand-on experiences on the commercialized ADR service. In particular, we deploy smart submeters to manage energy loads and install an energy management system in a small commercial facility, helping the owner participate in the ADR service that a local utility offers. The building owner makes a service contract with a qualified load aggregator based on her curtailment rate, a reference point that decides the success of her load curtailment. With the rate, the customer facility participates in three DR events for tests that last for 2, 1, and 3 hours, respectively. Our experimental results are illustrated with discussions on various aspects of the service.

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Section: Further Discussion Of Openadrmentioning

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Experiencing Commercialized Automated Demand Response Services with a Small Building Customer in Energy Market

Lee

2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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“…The PV and BMS also implements the IEC 61850 standard to communicate with the MP. The details of the simulators can be found in our previous research [39]. KIER is a research organization that focuses on improving energy efficiency and supporting energy policy in terms of technological development.…”

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Design and Implementation of a Microgrid Energy Management System

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A microgrid is characterized by the integration of distributed energy resources and controllable loads in a power distribution network. Such integration introduces new, unique challenges to microgrid management that have never been exposed to traditional power systems. To accommodate these challenges, it is necessary to redesign a conventional Energy Management System (EMS) so that it can cope with intrinsic characteristics of microgrids. While many projects have shown excellent research outcomes, they have either tackled portions of the characteristics or validated their EMSs only via simulations. This paper proposes a Microgrid Platform (MP), an advanced EMS for efficient microgrid operations. We design the MP by taking into consideration (i) all the functional requirements of a microgrid EMS (i.e., optimization, forecast, human-machine interface, and data analysis) and (ii) engineering challenges (i.e., interoperability, extensibility, and flexibility). Moreover, a prototype system is developed and deployed in two smart grid testbeds: UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center and Korea Institute of Energy Research. We then conduct experiments to verify the feasibility of the MP design in real-world settings. Our testbeds and experiments demonstrate that the MP is able to communicate with various energy devices and to perform an energy management task efficiently.

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“…There is one BMS that is simulated in the DER sub‐system. The simulated BMS applies the control algorithm that is developed in reference . At each time interval, the state of charge (SOC) in the battery depends on the differences between the amounts of the supply and demand, subject to constraints and consideration of system parameters, such as initial capacity, charging/discharging rate, and maximum/minimum SOC.…”

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“…The standard originally provides a common framework that standardizes the communication network within a power substation. During recent years, many studies on applying IEC 61850 to standardize the communication network in a DER system have been carefully carried out . However, few papers focus on providing a simplified, but explicit common approach for integrating IEC 61850.…”

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Design and implementation of communication architecture in a distributed energy resource system using IEC 61850 standard

Huang

Shi

Yao

et al. 2015

Int. J. Energy Res.

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A distributed energy resource (DER) system uses renewable generation and energy storage to provide power and ancillary services directly to users in the distribution system, and benefits the power grid by offering a solution to the energy crisis and mitigating the waste pollution to the environment. A key challenge in implementing a DER system is how to ensure the standardization of its communication network. The goal of this paper is to study and propose a common approach to standardize the communication network in the DER system using IEC 61850 and includes a design and implementation of the communication architecture. Two prototypical testbeds for the DER system have been developed in the SMERC laboratory and at KIER, with the aim to demonstrate a case study using the proposed approach. The testbeds contain various DERs such as photovoltaics, energy management systems, and electric vehicles. The procedure of integrating the IEC 61850 standard includes the system architecture configuration, data set design, test file write-up, and deployment of the gateway/client for communication. In the data set design, the specification of logical nodes, data object names, data attributes and common data classes are explained in detail. The research results and data collected from the current testbeds indicate a quality integration of the IEC 61850 standard with stable power flow and unified communication architecture in the DER system.

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Integration of IEC 61850 into a Distributed Energy Resources system in a smart green building

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Experiencing Commercialized Automated Demand Response Services with a Small Building Customer in Energy Market

Experiencing Commercialized Automated Demand Response Services with a Small Building Customer in Energy Market

Design and Implementation of a Microgrid Energy Management System

Design and implementation of communication architecture in a distributed energy resource system using IEC 61850 standard

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