Lab on Self-Organizing Smart Grids

Task:

• Propose a concept for a Lab which supports researchers in the area of self-organizing smart grids
• State the relevant resources (software, hardware, installations) which would be needed for such a lab.

Group 2

Name: EMMMA (Wil, Martina, Marc, Manfred, Anna)

Group 3

• Participants: Johannes, Andrea, Sven, Oliver, Astrid

Users of the SG lab

• Sensor networks people, distributed system people, ...
• computer scientists interested in the control and communication level of Smart Grids

What do they use it for?

Evolve our approaches & convince power systems people that our approaches perform well in the actual power system in place

We need ...

Abstraction layer to speed up deployment to field trials / component or system focussed testing labs

Grid Simulation or real grid components?

Simulation: commercial? To some extent, e.g. we could use PowerFactory

Time scale

• Several seconds
• Quasi-static grid simulation

Concept

• Evaluate different communication technologies and protocols to see how appropriate they would be for self-organisation approaches in the Smart Grid

--> Emulation platform (Hardware-in-the-loop)

• Understand dynamics in such a system, get to know the main problems

--> Get the sensor data/simulation results in the needed resolution

• Verify simulations: Close enough to reality: hardware
• Evaluate grid & component coordination
• Real time requirements?
• Easily switch between coordination approaches (conventional / self-organised / hierarchical) to evaluate their performance

--> Layered concept with defined interfaces