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Reliability and Resilience Through the Deployment of Advanced Grid Controls
This session will allow the audience to hear from an investor-owned utility and a grid controls product vendor about their plans to improve reliability and resilience through the deployment of advanced grid controls. Speakers will share thoughts about their current and upcoming deployments, including distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS). Speakers will present their motivation for the development and deployment of these controls and their field experience to date. They will also discuss key use cases that they expect these controls to address, such as improving reliability through load growth and/or at high levels of distributed resources, and the use of distributed resources for the provision of grid services including peak load reduction. They will also share how they are using the Advanced Grid Controls Test Bed at the National Laboratory of the Rockieis (NLR) to de-risk field deployments. The test bed features real-time software simulations and hardware to realistically represent a power distribution system with industry-standard communications protocols, allowing commercial grid control products to connect as they would in a utility environment.
The audience will leave this presentation with concrete examples of active and upcoming advanced grid control deployments for improving reliability and resilience, and with examples of how utilities can use NLR’s Advanced Grid Controls Test Bed to de-risk field deployments.
Session Sponsored by the National Laboratories of the Rockies
