Shell Collaborates With NREL on Grid Edge Solutions

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Shell, Spirae LLC, Electrical Grid Monitoring Inc. (EGM), and Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) to partner with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on power distribution system management and controls projects.

The partners will participate in two projects, which will leverage NREL’s ADMS Test Bed to evaluate leading-edge management solutions for the electrical grid.

In one project, Shell, Spirae and NREL will partner to demonstrate and evaluate a distributed control architecture to manage and optimise grid-edge resources to meet multiple operating objectives.

In the other project, EGM, IEC and NREL will partner to evaluate the performance impact of enhanced monitoring on power system restoration.

The projects were competitively selected based on proposals in response to NREL’s Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) User Call for Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) Test Bed Use Cases.
 

Annabelle Pratt, chief engineer at NREL, stated: “Results of this proof of concept will show how utilities can model end-user systems to evaluate the simultaneous benefits to grid and customer operations.

“The primary objective of this project is to demonstrate how utility operations and distributed energy resource-based energy service platforms can co-optimise benefits to end users and grid operators. This project also focuses on systems that can be deployed in the field to add value to energy consumers immediately,” Pratt added.

source: Smart Energy International