TY - GEN
T1 - International Development of a Distributed Energy Resource Test Platform for Electrical and Interoperability Certification
AU - Johnson, Jay
AU - Apablaza-Arancibia, Estefan
AU - Ninad, Nayeem
AU - Turcotte, Dave
AU - Prieur, Alexandre
AU - Ablinger, Ron
AU - Bründlinger, Roland
AU - Moore, Tim
AU - Heidari, Rahmat
AU - Hashimoto, Jun
AU - Cho, Changhee
AU - Kumar, R. Sudhir
AU - Kumar, Jeykishan
AU - Verga, Maurizio
AU - Farias, José Luis Silva
AU - Tena, José Gerardo Montoya
AU - Baumgartner, Franz
AU - Temez, Iigo Vidaurrazaga
AU - Segade, Ricardo Alonso
AU - Fox, Bob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/11/26
Y1 - 2018/11/26
N2 - Several international research laboratories are collaborating under a Smart Grid International Research Facility Network (SIRFN) project to develop certification procedures for advanced distributed energy resources (DER). To effectively evaluate interoperability and grid-support functionality in DER equipment, test permutations across the full range of modes and parameters are required. It is impractical to complete these experiments manually so the project team is working to develop a software tool, associated abstraction layers, and hardware drivers to execute the experiments autonomously using the same opensource test logic. This software can then be programmed to complete interoperable DER certification experiments at DER vendor facilities, certification laboratories, or research institutions. By sharing the codebase with all institutions, barriers to adoption steadily decrease. To demonstrate the approach, Underwriters Laboratories 1741 Supplement A volt-var and specified power factor test results from multiple laboratories are presented and compared.
AB - Several international research laboratories are collaborating under a Smart Grid International Research Facility Network (SIRFN) project to develop certification procedures for advanced distributed energy resources (DER). To effectively evaluate interoperability and grid-support functionality in DER equipment, test permutations across the full range of modes and parameters are required. It is impractical to complete these experiments manually so the project team is working to develop a software tool, associated abstraction layers, and hardware drivers to execute the experiments autonomously using the same opensource test logic. This software can then be programmed to complete interoperable DER certification experiments at DER vendor facilities, certification laboratories, or research institutions. By sharing the codebase with all institutions, barriers to adoption steadily decrease. To demonstrate the approach, Underwriters Laboratories 1741 Supplement A volt-var and specified power factor test results from multiple laboratories are presented and compared.
KW - Certification protocols
KW - dER testing
KW - grid-support functions
KW - interoperability
KW - smart grid
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055849945&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547588
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547588
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055849945
T3 - 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
SP - 2492
EP - 2497
BT - 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
ER -
