Adaptive Energy Resource Management System – scaling out microgrid based solutions in electrical power systems

Abstract

This paper addresses the increasing challenges behind distribution networks’ operation resulting from the fast-scale integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), such as Electric Vehicles and renewable generation, by proposing an adaptive energy resource management solution. This solution, leveraged by a combined energy storage and microgrid management system aims at providing a flexible and straightforward way of scaling out microgrid based solutions in existing electrical power systems, as a mean of effectively tackling these challenges while enabling the efficient and safe increase of networks capacity to host new DER. This solution is being built under the DEMOCRAT demonstration project scope, which enables an adequate validation of the solution as it comprises a real field environment in an industrial campus.