Cybersecurity for distributed energy resources and smart inverters

Smart Grid: ICT Control for Distributed Energy Resources

The fact that the electrical grid represents a critical and complex infrastructure has prevented it from experiencing major breakthroughs during decades. Therefore, some problems and inefficiencies have been carried around for a long while, up to the point that traditional electrical grid is far away from being prepared to face incoming challenges, such as properly integrating the foreseen high...

Integrating Smart Distributed Energy Resources with Distribution Management Systems

2 the output of " utility scale " DERs (> one megawatt). In addition, existing industry standards define advanced functions for DER only at the individual device level, and lack the more aggregated, feeder-level representations that are needed for enterprise integration. This white paper describes ongoing research at the Electric Power Research Institute that is exploring Various ways in which ...

Grid Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grid

As the gap between supply and demand of electrical power is getting wider the continuous power supply is not possible for all at the same time. Existing power grid is not well suited for 21 century power flow from generation to end user. To focus on the challenges of 20 century grid like blackout, Power discontinuity, Frequency variation, etc. the new concept of smart grid emerged. It is expect...

Cascade Dual-Buck Inverters for Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation

Cybersecurity Strategies for Smart Grids

Today, the development of information and communications technologies have changed the utility landscape dramatically. In particular, electricity distribution networks rely heavily on a multitude of intelligent systems and devices that communicate among each other in much more advanced ways than in the past. As the Smart Grid is becoming nowadays a critical component in the electricity delivery...