Advanced Distribution Protection and Restoration Devices
What are Advanced Distribution Protection and Restoration Devices?[1]
Advanced distribution protection and restoration systems are built from distributed control and communications technologies. They are designed to communicate over peer-to-peer networks or over high-speed fiber-optic networks, operating either autonomously or in concert with substation automation systems. Advanced distribution protection must also be able to integrate with distributed generation, storage technologies, and other distributed resources to reliably protect distribution assets.
Advanced Distribution Management System Test Bed[2]
The ADMS test bed is a national, vendor-neutral effort funded by the Department of Energy Office of Electricity’s Advanced Grid Research Program to accelerate industry development and the adoption of ADMS capabilities. The test bed enables utility partners, vendors, and researchers to evaluate existing and future ADMS, distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS), and other utility management system applications in a realistic laboratory environment.
The ADMS test bed is an evaluation platform that consists of software simulations of large-scale distributed systems and field equipment integrated through hardware-in-the-loop techniques that realistically represent a power distribution system to a commercial or precommercial ADMS. The ADMS is interfaced with the test bed using industry-standard communication protocols so it can be deployed as it would be in a utility environment. The test bed can integrate distribution system hardware in the Energy Systems Integration Facility for hardware-in-the-loop experiments and makes use of the facility’s advanced visualization capabilities, including 3D visualization. The test bed can also integrate simulations of end-use loads in buildings as well as home energy management system controllers with the distribution system simulation using the Hierarchical Engine for Large-scale Infrastructure Co-Simulation (HELICS), an open-source, cyber-physical-energy co-simulation framework for electric power systems.
See Also
Peer-to-Peer Architecture (P2P Architecture)
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