Boutsiadis, E.; Pasialis, N.; Lettas, N.; Tsiamitros, D.; Stimoniaris, D. Distributed Generation Control Using Ripple Signaling and a Multiprotocol Communication Embedded Device. Energies2023, 16, 7604.
Boutsiadis, E.; Pasialis, N.; Lettas, N.; Tsiamitros, D.; Stimoniaris, D. Distributed Generation Control Using Ripple Signaling and a Multiprotocol Communication Embedded Device. Energies 2023, 16, 7604.
Boutsiadis, E.; Pasialis, N.; Lettas, N.; Tsiamitros, D.; Stimoniaris, D. Distributed Generation Control Using Ripple Signaling and a Multiprotocol Communication Embedded Device. Energies2023, 16, 7604.
Boutsiadis, E.; Pasialis, N.; Lettas, N.; Tsiamitros, D.; Stimoniaris, D. Distributed Generation Control Using Ripple Signaling and a Multiprotocol Communication Embedded Device. Energies 2023, 16, 7604.
Abstract
Remote distributed generation control and demand response is nowadays a basic need, especially for the Distributed Network Operators (DNOs). The integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) with stochastic production characteristics into the grid in conjunction with the newly appeared stochastic demand consumers (i.e., electric vehicles) hardens the ef-forts of the DNOs to keep the grid’s operation within safe limits and prevent cascading black-outs while staying in compliance with the SAIDI and SAIFI indices during maintenance and re-pair operations. Taking also under consideration the aging of the existing grid infrastructure, making it year by year more prone to failure, it is yet of great significance for the DNOs to have access to real-time feedback from grid’s infrastructure, fast, with low-cost upgrade interventions, easily deployed on the field and with fast response potential, in order to be able to perform real-time grid management (RTGM). In this article, we describe the architecture, development and deployment of a hybrid real-time control system of distributed generation (DG) units, which has the potential to be applied easily to DNO’s substations, RES plants and consumers (i.e. electric vehicles’ charging stations), that combines a low-cost minimum intervention into the electricity grid and its components and eliminates all communication interoperability problems between the different vendors’ installed electrical equipment.
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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