Data Analysis and Visualization for Electric Microgrids: A Case Study on the FortZED RDSI Microgrid

Author

Panwar, Mayank ; Zimmerle, Daniel ; Suryanarayanan, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ. Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-5 April 2013

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

337

Abstract

Electric microgrids generate a significant amount of measurement data by virtue of the constituent distributed smaller capacity assets. Data reduction for performance quantification and visualization techniques for microgrids is presented here. The case study is performed on an operating microgrid in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Relevant NERC metrics are calculated and two more system level metrics are developed. Alternative approaches to peak load reduction calculations are also presented. A visualization GUI is developed and discussed as a deliverable to the power system operator for enhanced situational awareness.

Keywords

data visualisation; distributed power generation; graphical user interfaces; power engineering computing; FortZED RDSI microgrid; data analysis; data reduction; data visualization; electric microgrids; peak load reduction; situational awareness; system level metrics; visualization GUI; Data visualization; Load management; Measurement; Microgrids; Power system reliability; Reliability; Vectors; Data analysis; GUI; data reduction; enhanced situational awareness; microgrids; peak load reduction; reliability; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Technologies Conference, 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

ISSN

2166-546X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5191-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GreenTech.2013.57

Filename

6520070