{"title":"Energy Access in Community Microgrids based on Decentralized Real-time Pricing","authors":"Rohit A Jinsiwale, D. Divan","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758784","url":null,"abstract":"Non-dispatchable sources like PV and their increased adoption in emerging markets have made it extremely challenging to stabilize these systems. Enormous variations in the supply-demand ratio on a daily basis, point to the need for real-time market structures. Today's pricing mechanisms such as Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) and Distribution Locational Marginal Prices (DLMPs) are highly dependent on real-time knowledge of system topology, grid states and high-speed communication infrastructure. These mechanisms are not yet widely adopted and are extremely prone to failure in the event of damage to the communication infrastructure or inaccurate system models. A novel decentralized pricing architecture is presented here which relies on frequency- a ubiquitous signal, to establish real-time prices. This ensures that the real-time price can be observed at every node without any communication infrastructure, making it extremely resilient. The approach also succeeds in generating common rules for control and operation of inverter-based as well as conventional sources. The approach integrates the transactive and operational aspects of the grid and leverages supply-demand flexibility, while ensuring the lowest cost of operation.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129152123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Szilard Liptak, M. Miranbeigi, Shreyas Kulkarni, Rohit A Jinsiwale, D. Divan
{"title":"Self-Organizing NanoGrid (SONG)","authors":"Szilard Liptak, M. Miranbeigi, Shreyas Kulkarni, Rohit A Jinsiwale, D. Divan","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758741","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the concept of a Self-Organizing NanoGrid (SONG) that enables the formation of a distributed decentralized DC nanogrid that is formed using simple building-block converters, that can be connected together in an ad hoc manner, and can be operated with minimal technical expertise in the field. The SONG system does not require detailed knowledge of the network or sources/loads or low latency communication, and is able to operate over a wide ratio of available generation and demanded load. This paper shows the concept of SONG and, its operating characteristics and specifications, and implementation of the converter/load/source elements. SONG presents a new concept of a flexible, scalable, fractal grid that provides unparalleled performance at minimal first and operating cost.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115674365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shreyas Kulkarni, Stephen Piper, Szilard Liptak, D. Divan
{"title":"Implementing Pay-as-You-Go Functionality in Microgrids using Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks","authors":"Shreyas Kulkarni, Stephen Piper, Szilard Liptak, D. Divan","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758756","url":null,"abstract":"Energy access has been a significant challenge in emerging economies, with 1.1 billion people having no access to electricity. Pay-as-you-go solutions are attractive since they enable customers to make small payments, making the solution affordable. However, pay-as-you-go requires a duplex communication channel, adding to overall costs and complexities. Although the need of the hour is rapid scaling and proliferation of these solutions, present models have not yet achieved widespread adoption. This paper presents a low-cost pay-as-you-go solution that has intelligence embedded in it, capable of maintaining account balance and related information autonomously. This method can be used in a microgrid environment or scaled to a rural co-op or emerging utility. Since the solution needs minimal inputs from the cloud, the network is delay tolerant and can work with intermittent connectivity. This platform enables a service-based revenue model, which can provide additional employment opportunities in emerging markets. This paper presents the design elements and test results of using the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116372725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xi Chen, Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee, Khalil Alluhaybi, Haibing Hu, I. Batarseh
{"title":"Single-Stage PV-Battery Microinverter Energy Solutions with Decentralized Model for Single-Family Homes","authors":"Xi Chen, Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee, Khalil Alluhaybi, Haibing Hu, I. Batarseh","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758765","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two different simple topologies to interface PV panel and battery packs according to energy needs and family income for single-family homes. The target of this paper is to provide reliable energy solutions for people living in areas without electricity in Africa and South Asia. A decentralized model has been applied to the proposed system architecture to allow the plug & play functionality and power sharing without communication, and therefore, enhance the system flexibility. A simulation study was carried out to validate the operation of proposed topologies.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124027596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power Smoothing Control Using Spline Function in Photovoltaic Generation System","authors":"A. Takahashi, Tatsuya Kajitani, S. Funabiki","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758737","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel power smoothing control method using a spline function for a photovoltaic generation system. The spline function is sequentially created using the preceding average values of PV power. The command value of power smoothing control is determined by extrapolating the obtained spline function, which represents the long-term fluctuation components of PV power. The smoothing effect is evaluated by calculating the power in the targeted frequency band of the power flowing backward to the power grid. The proposed method is verified with 153 days of data measured in the PV system rated 1.75 MW. As a result, the smoothing effect was 51.8% with the proposed method in the case that the parameter of section time was 300 s. The rated capacity of energy storage system was 106 kWh. Then, it was indicated that the smoothing effect was increased and the short-term fluctuation of power flowing back to the power grid was reduced by setting the section time longer. Finally, the proposed method was compared with the power smoothing control using simple MA.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123225595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Approach for Bump-less Connection of Microgrids with the Grid","authors":"Nishant Bilakanti, D. Divan, F. Lambert","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758759","url":null,"abstract":"Rapidly declining prices of solar PV and storage technologies are leading to widespread deployment of distributed energy resources across the grid at an unprecedented and accelerating pace. Extreme weather events, the need for improved reliability, demand charge reduction, improved power quality, energy arbitrage, fuel diversity, greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction, etc. has spurred and renewed interest in microgrids at the customer, community, and utility level. To achieve seamless/bump-less/transient-free transitions between the islanded and grid-connected modes of operation, most commercially available microgrids either operate in or switch into the isochronous control mode to synchronize generation resources and to maintain phase, frequency, and voltage prior to reconnecting the microgrid with the grid. This method of using a centralized microgrid controller and communicating with every DER fails when considering large geographically dispersed microgrids with numerous DERs such as utility-scale microgrids, community microgrids, etc., as centralized control and real-time communication become infeasible. This paper proposes a novel approach using an Island Interconnection Device (IID) for the bump-less connection of multiple islanded microgrids to form a networked microgrid, and reconnect with the grid in a truly decentralized fashion.","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122752724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress Towards Fixing Dysfunctional Energy System without Ruining the Economy","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEAS.2019.8758729","url":null,"abstract":"Progress Towards Fixing Dysfunctional Energy System without Ruining the Economy","PeriodicalId":271530,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Decentralized Energy Access Solutions Workshop (DEAS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134511460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}