Test bed evaluation of future power distribution systems with renewable resources

Author

Sathyanarayana, Bharadwaj R. ; Crow, Mariesa ; Heydt, Gerald T. ; Meng, Fanjun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has inaugurated an Engineering Research Center dedicated to Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution Management (FREEDM). The premise of the center is to enable the utilization of renewable resources in power distribution systems through the utilization of solid state controllers and direct digital control. The center is at an initial stage and the focus of some effort is on the development of a test bed that will allow the evaluation of alternative system configurations, controls, solid state controllers, and operations strategies. This paper describes some of those considerations and the requirements for a test bed for a future power distribution system with renewable resources.

Keywords

Centralized control; Control systems; Digital control; Distributed control; Power distribution; Power engineering and energy; Power system dynamics; Solid state circuits; System testing; Systems engineering and theory; distributed resources; distribution engineering; power distribution systems; power system engineering; renewable resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2009

Conference_Location

Starkville, MS, USA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4428-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4429-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.2009.5484098

Filename

5484098