General Smart Grid background

Decentralization

"Multi grid"

Spread decision making?

Key words

• control, stability
• energy market, legislation
• forecasting, planing, decision-making,
• reliability, time constants, scale,
• tests and validation

• → models
• → data
• → experimental facilities

Motivation

• Only one real power system
• Interconnected at a continental scale
• Safety, high disponibility and quality of service
• Unavailable for testing unreliable ideas!
• Many demonstrators and testing facilities
• Laboratories have micro grids – insulated or connected
• Industrials companies have demonstrators – often connected
• Right scale for testing and experiments ?
• Many – controlable – agents
• Fault experiments
• Simulation of the real grid without being connected.

Requirements specification of a smart grid platform

• Smart grid → two interacting networks
• power network
• communication network
• Ideal system
• As many agents as possible
• As diverse as possible
• Grid behaviour but not connected to the real grid
• Right scale for testing and experiments ?
• Real / Emulated devices
• Real behaviour but only one location
• Possibility to behave like any real device, anywhere

opENS experimental plateform

Power-HIL asset

• interface data network to power grid
• emulate asset /wind turbine, consumer, peer to peer asset, ...
• evolutive /user friendly
• record data /monitoring, experiment
• robust and low cost /duplication
• open source /code and hardware

What's next?

opENS simulation plateform