Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network

Girbau-Llistuella, Francesc; Díaz‐González, Francisco; Sumper, Andreas; Gallart-Fernández, Ramon; Heredero-Peris, Daniel

doi:10.3390/en11040844

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“…The technology research center CITEA of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) is active in the areas of renewable energy generation, power electronics, (digital) energy systems, energy economics, and smart grids. Regarding the latter, CITEA especially engages in planning, architectural, and ICT concepts, monitoring, and operation systems, while also, energy efficiency, markets, and regulations are in CINEA's focus …”

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Smart grid lab research in Europe and beyond

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Summary In this survey, the objective is to identify current trends in the smart grid research by exploring the work carried out in numerous smart grid labs worldwide. For this purpose, a large number of smart grid labs are identified, and a short description of their activities is given. Fifty‐eight out of the 75 identified labs are located in Europe. Smart grid research is divided into categories, which represent popular topics of research in the field. The predominant category of research is identified to be generation and distributed energy resources (Gen & DER) with 91% of the labs conducting research in this field. Aggregated information is presented regarding the labs, providing a clear idea of the topics of research carried out. Connections between different topics of research are presented, which reveal synergies or collaboration gaps among various smart grid topics. Grid management and Gen & DER and energy storage and Gen & DER have been found to be popular combinations of topics with 55 labs active in both, respectively. In addition, we provide insights on the entities at which research is targeted and consider the evolution of publications produced by the labs on the different categories. An overall increase in publications was observed over the past 11 years in virtually all categories of smart grid research with the most published scientific papers in Gen & DER and electromobility. Collaborations between research institutes have been analyzed, pointing out existing joint research conducted and the huge potential to explore synergies between institutes further. Our work is useful in order to identify the smart grid areas where research is focusing on. This gives a clear picture of potential synergies between labs for knowledge sharing and enhancing their research efforts.

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“…Regarding the latter, CITEA especially engages in planning, architectural, and ICT concepts, monitoring, and operation systems, while also, energy efficiency, markets, and regulations are in CINEA's focus. [115][116][117][118][119]…”

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Smart grid lab research in Europe and beyond

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“…Various European research projects focusing on the design and architecture of microgrid show the relevance and the insufficiency of the existing solutions. Girbau-Llistuella et al [26] present the experience and approach used in setting up smart grid pilot network in the rural distribution network in Spain. Towards the distributed controlling, they have created two new agents, communicating with the SCADA system at the Distribution System Operator (DSO) side.…”

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Developing Self-Similar Hybrid Control Architecture Based on SGAM-Based Methodology for Distributed Microgrids

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2018

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the complex systems that control and coordinate physical infrastructures, which may be geographically apart, via the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). One such application of CPS is smart microgrids. Microgrids comprise both power consuming and power producing infrastructure and are capable of operating in grid connected and disconnected modes. Due to the presence of heterogeneous smart devices communicating over multiple communication protocols in a distributed environment, a system architecture is required. The objective of this paper is to approach the microgrid architecture from the software and systems’ design perspective. The architecture should be flexible to support various multiple communication protocols and is able to integrate various hardware technologies. It should also be modular and scalable to support various functionalities such as island mode operations, energy efficient operations, energy trading, predictive maintenance, etc. These requirements are the basis for designing the software architecture for the smart microgrids that should be able to manage not only electrical but all energy related systems. In this work, we propose a distributed, hybrid control architecture suited for microgrid environments, where entities are geographically distant and need to operate in a cohesive manner. The proposed system architecture supports various design philosophies such as component-based design, hierarchical composition of components, peer-to-peer design, distributed decision-making and controlling as well as plug-and-play during runtime. A unique capability of the proposed system architecture is the self-similarity of the components for the distributed microgrids. The benefit of the approach is that it supports these design philosophies at all the levels in the hierarchy in contrast to a typical centralized architectures where decisions are taken only at the global level. The proposed architecture is applied to a real system of 13 residential buildings in a low-voltage distribution network. The required implementation and deployment details for monitoring and controlling 13 residential buildings are also discussed in this work.

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“…Researchers have also done a lot of work on the power router's power electronic topologies [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. In Ref.…”

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“…In Ref. [15], Girbau-Llistuella introduces the architecture of an intelligent distribution power router with a battery used in rural distribution. It can connect DC equipment to an AC grid, but the power router's port property is fixed.…”

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An Alterable Structure Power Router with General AC and DC Port for Microgrid Applications

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This paper proposes an alterable structure power router (PR) topology which shares the ability of general Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) port. This alterable structure PR aims to better implement the interconnections among micro-grids, renewable energy, and traditional grids. The PR’s converter structure is alterable according to the system power. Based on the operation analysis of the PR, the mathematic model of the power router is established and the relationship between switch states and port voltage is analyzed. According to the PR mathematical model, the control method is designed to realize current control in both AC and DC mode. With the proposed power router topology, the PR’s port can be used in both AC and DC situations, which saves the cost of traditional PRs and increases economic efficiency. The simulation and experimental results prove the good steady-state and dynamic performance of the proposed power router topology.

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Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network

Cited by 22 publications

References 45 publications

Smart grid lab research in Europe and beyond

Smart grid lab research in Europe and beyond

Developing Self-Similar Hybrid Control Architecture Based on SGAM-Based Methodology for Distributed Microgrids

An Alterable Structure Power Router with General AC and DC Port for Microgrid Applications

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