Hardware-in-The-Loop-Based Validation of Distribution System Control Applications with Grid Operators, Customer and Market Participants
Otte, Marcel and Krüger, Carsten and Das, Pratyush and Rohjans, Sebastian and Lehnhoff, Sebastian
Energy Informatics Academy Conference
The flexibility potential of electric vehicles, heat pumps, photovoltaics, and storage systems allocated at customer premises raises attention to grid-serving and market-serving control applications. However, control applications vary as the kind of flexibility differs due to the complexity of interactions behind the meter, the actors involved, conflict of interests, regulatory requirements, and the number of systems to integrate. Consequently, the validation of applications across all phases of development reveals the potential bottlenecks of the application before deployment. This work presents the use cases for distribution system control applications and how they can be validated in a hardware-in-the-loop simulation environment. The validation environment covers the systems of a distribution system operator and its upstream grid operator, virtual field devices, a real-time grid simulation, the meter operator including the operation of an advanced metering infrastructure, as well as applications from market participants like aggregators. As a proof of concept, two use cases are selected to demonstrate how grid operator coordination and customer behaviour can be validated. Thereafter, it will be implied how the validation environment is suitable for future use cases, such as the coordination of grid-serving and market-serving control applications.
October / 2024
inproceedings
Springer
228-244
RD3.0
Redispatch 3.0
Redispatch 3.0
