Today, millions of utility and customer-owned devices contribute to the reliable and efficient operation of power systems around the world. As the deployment of distributed generation, storage and controllable load continues to grow, their capabilities are becoming more important to increasingly dynamic distribution grids. To enable distributed resources, our future power system will have to cost-effectively integrate traditional grid infrastructure with innovative power electronics-based assets on the utility and customer side of the meter. The development of a distributed energy control architecture will require close coordination between customer and utility-owned devices, enhanced management practices, and drastic changes to existing business practices. These changes will ultimately increase renewable hosting capacity, improve reliability, and increase efficiency. This panel will discuss advancements in grid edge technologies, their capabilities, and their impacts on the grid and is loosely based on REV working group 2 (Platform Technology): Working Group 2 is charged with identifying infrastructure needed to enable the Distributed System Platform Provider to integrate, monitor and control Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in real time.

Comments

1. Well done. This was an excellent discussion.  Very informative.  Sensible approaches to many things.  There are many things to consider regarding modernization of the historic systems. They were designed as needed then, and functioned very well for a very long time.  Many new solutions are needed to harmonize distributed generation with the legacy infrastructure, and have information for existing needs, and future planning. It will be very interesting to see how the next stages of these developments. I hope to constructively participate at every opportunity.  Thanks!