Developing benchmark models for studying the integration of distributed energy resources

The widespread use of distributed energy resources (DER) relies on methods and techniques aimed at facilitating the network integration of DER. In this context a methodology for the evaluation of the quality and relative merits of these methods and techniques is missing. CIGRE Task Force C6.04.02, which is affiliated with CIGRE Study Committee C6, has addressed this problem. A set of resource and network benchmarks is proposed in order to model a wide spectrum of real-world DER integration problems and to create and evaluate solutions to these problems. In the present paper, the development of these benchmarks is introduced