Microgrid design research refers to technical innovations, design strategies, renewable-integration solutions, development pathways, and the sharing of these approaches. DOE projects that are contributing to improved remote microgrid designs include the following.
DOE's remote microgrid research has primarily targeted applications in Alaska, where multiple deployments have made significant progress in demonstrating technical solutions for resilient operations and have provided reference systems to plan resilient microgrids elsewhere.
Similar technical challenges were explored by the European Union MICROGRIDS project such as energy management, safe islanding and re-connection practices, protection equipment, control strategies under islanded and connected scenarios, and communications protocols .
Institutional support programs that facilitate knowledge and data exchange, data-sharing resources, supportive policy and regulatory models, development strategies, and wider-scale coordination. Microgrid designs that consider heating, cooling, transportation, resilience, interconnected systems, and high contributions from renewable energy.
This report was authored by Kiera Zitelman, Senior Manager, NARUC Center for Partnerships & Innovation with support from Kirsten Verclas and Sam Cramer at NASEO, as part of the NARUC
This report features 26 microgrid case studies from California, North America, and other countries that make innovative business cases and rely on government support for less than 50 percent of project
Using the framework described in this guidebook, stakeholders can come together and start to quantify site-specific vulnerabilities, identify the most significant risks to delivery of electricity, and establish
This report summarizes the attributes of the various assets that will be used in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory''s (PNNL''s) Integrated Renewable Energy System (IRES) microgrid project.
A microgrid, regarded as one of the cornerstones of the future smart grid, uses distributed generations and information technology to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery
As our reliance on traditional power grids continues to increase, the risk of blackouts and energy shortages becomes more imminent. However, a microgrid system,
While DOE has made significant progress in supporting microgrid deployments, there remain research gaps for both remote microgrid, and microgrids for critical infrastructure, which are being addressed
The Net-Zero Microgrid Program provides cross-cutting research to accelerate the use of renewable and zero-carbon generation in microgrids.
This report describes the technical assessment of a microgrid for three research buildings at the University of Colorado''s East Research Campus in Boulder, Colorado, and provides several
For stakeholders with less existing microgrid knowledge, we asked if they knew the benefits of microgrids and if they wanted a brief technical review of how microgrids work.
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