PI: Anamika Dubey
Co-PI(s): A. Bose
Sponsor: Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Award Amount: $250,000
Project Period: 04/2021 – 03/2022
Summary: The goal of this work will be to support the GridAPPS-D Year 3+ efforts to evaluate potential future distribution system operating schemes. This includes how various architectures and controls strategies, as they relate to the GridAPPS-D platform, can be leveraged to facilitate future operating paradigms. The first step is a high-level road map of potential architectures, including what is being proposed in different regions and in different disciplines specifically in the control systems community. The roadmap will build on existing DOE activities, such as the Grid Modernization Initiative, but with a specific focus on distribution system operations. Additionally, the road map will include a survey of the key planning and operational challenges which are driving change in the industry. The architecture road map will also examine the exchange of information between the boundary of distribution and transmission systems, and how resources are engaged across this boundary. Along with an evaluation of architecture the work will include an examination and evaluation of a range of control structures. These include, but are not limited to, centralized, decentralized, and hierarchical. Finally, the impact of new technologies and the impact they may have on architectures will be evaluated.