Inverter interconnection tests performed in the LABEIN-Tecnalia microgrid involved in the DERlab round- robin testing activity

Gil-de-Muro, Asier; Rodríguez-Seco, J.E.; Zabala, Eduardo; Mayr, Christoph; Bründlinger, Roland; Romanovsky, G.; Gehrke, Oliver; Isleifsson, Fridrik Rafn

doi:10.1109/epqu.2009.5318858

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“…In the Labein Research Institute, Spain, a MG has been set up for testing control architectures [21]. The option of operating a feeder in Frielas, Portugal, as a low voltage MG supplied by a single natural gas micro-turbine has been identified and thoroughly studied [22].…”

Section: Microgrid Sites and Installationsmentioning

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Planned communities as microgrid applications

Moutis

Skarvelis‐Kazakos

Brucoli

et al. 2014

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Europe

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The microgrid (MG), as an operational paradigm for the exploitation of distributed energy resources (DER), has been thoroughly studied the past few years. However, applications are largely limited to test sites and demo installations, lacking the business argument in favor of the wider deployment of the MG concept. Planned communities (PC), a residential development concept aiming to channel the population growth away from the overcrowded and polluted city centers, can serve as a business model for the application of the MG control architectures and philosophies. This paper intends to link the core characteristics of the PC to existing MG sites and installations, providing evidence of their suitability for MG development.

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Section: Microgrid Sites and Installationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planned communities as microgrid applications

Moutis

Skarvelis‐Kazakos

Brucoli

et al. 2014

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Europe

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“…Concerning measurements in real grids, those are sometimes reported and show the DER's integration performance in reality [6]. Nevertheless, main part of the research work published is done on investigations of performance of special grid integration functions of DERs in the laboratory [5,7,8,9,10]. Another important part of investigations is in the field of grid integration in general, power flow and grid stability [4,11,12,13].…”

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Research laboratory for grid integration of distributed renewable energy resources - design and realization -

Fuchs

Gebhardt

Hoffmann

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)

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The growing amount of electric energy generated from distributed energy resources (DER), mainly of renewables, requires their appropriate integration into the electrical grid. These distributed renewable power sources are mainly feeding-in the power via converters and can be controlled well. Investigation of their grid integration means investigating their control and hardware concept in the dedicated grid environment. Measurements at downscaled systems in a laboratory environment are a time-and cost-efficient way to investigate this. The properties of the electrical grid, voltage amplitude, frequency and phase as well as the grid impedance can vary substantially by time, the grid impedance moreover is frequency dependent. These properties have to be emulated for the measurements of the grid integration. A dedicated research laboratory test-bench has been developed. The laboratory comprises special developed systems for grid voltage emulation, sag generation, grid impedance emulation, grid voltage correction and grid impedance analysis. Here, the design and realization of these systems in the laboratory test-bench for investigations on grid integration of distributed renewable energy resources are presented. Representative measurements for each system prove their functionality.

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“…The usefulness of a microgrid testbed as a tool for studying DERs grid integration is demonstrated in a number of scientific publications starting from a simple proof-of-concept laboratory testbeds [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] to the real life microgrid implementations [16], [17]. The combination of microgrid testbeds with PHIL techniques and fast, real-time systems offer a wide range of options to increase the system flexibility.…”

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A laboratory environment for real-time testing of energy management scenarios: Smart Energy Integration Lab (SEIL)

Huerta

Gruber

Prodanović

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA)

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Grid integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) has been a hot topic in the field of power electronics in recent years. Time and resources required in experimental verification of control algorithms and equipment can be significantly reduced by using power-hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) techniques. The paper presents the Smart Energy Integration Lab (SEIL), a PHIL based microgrid testbed specifically built for analyzing grid integration aspects of DERs with a focus on system dynamic performance and power dispatch scenarios. The SEIL consists of a remotely-controlled AC network configuration, power electronics converters, passive load banks, a battery storage system and real-time control and data acquisition systems. By using these resources, the laboratory allows configuration and simultaneous operation of several microgrids. To demonstrate the functionality of the SEIL, a power dispatch scenario applied to a microgrid was used.Power-hardware-in-the-loop; renewable grid integration; power dispatch; energy management

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Inverter interconnection tests performed in the LABEIN-Tecnalia microgrid involved in the DERlab round- robin testing activity

Cited by 10 publications

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Planned communities as microgrid applications

Planned communities as microgrid applications

Research laboratory for grid integration of distributed renewable energy resources - design and realization -

A laboratory environment for real-time testing of energy management scenarios: Smart Energy Integration Lab (SEIL)

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