Project Summary
Project summary and Technical Approach
The objective of this project is to design a grid management tool (ReDis-PV) that is threat aware, resilient, grid reconfigurable, and can form dynamic clusters to optimally manage PV and energy storage for improving grid resiliency and supporting critical infrastructure. ReDis-PV consists of:
A situational awareness module.
Proactive resiliency diagnosis and predictive adaptation module.
A hierarchical control with dynamic clustering and organization module.
Optimal power flow module.
A network reconfiguration and cyber security threat detection module.
The proposed approach is to develop a vendor agnostic tool comprising of the above mentioned modules requiring minimal communication between active PV stations, storage nodes, and distribution control center (DCC)
Key Milestones & Outcomes
Year 1: Tool that can perform grid resiliency improvement and critical infrastructure support for 100+ nodes. Design testing and validation.
Year 2: Tool that can perform grid resiliency improvement and critical infrastructure support for 1000+ nodes. Inter-dependency testing and scalability evaluation.
Year 3: Tool that can be deployed in the field in a small scale and fully deployable in HIL simulation.
Project Impact
We will focus on the following specific performance metrics compare to baseline with the integration of ReDis-PV net capacity factor improvement (by 15 %), increase in PV penetration (by 10%), both reliability and resilience improvement by 15% and PV dispatch-ability by 10%with optimal energy storage size which is has significant impact on improving large grid scale reliability and resiliency.
