A Review of the New Medium Voltage Smart Grid at UNAM and its Academic Uses

Abstract

The underground distribution electric grid at UNAM is a success case in the implementation of smart grids in Mexico. The use of equipment for monitoring, protection, automation and control of the grid along with the parallel use of an optical fiber communication network has modernized the infrastructure installed on campus. Researchers, mainly from the Institute of Engineering and for purely academic purposes, are interested in using measurements of electrical parameters of the medium voltage grid in order to develop a monitoring and simulation platform that allows running state-of-the-art smart grid applications. Firstly, this paper focuses on the grid description; later, a proposal of how the data could be managed from the laboratory through the German software Power Factory DIgSILENT is presented. An example of an academic use is shown by performing a photovoltaic integration study using data from the SISIFO software, an open source Photovoltaic simulator.