Microgrid Management System

Edge control solution for microgrids & distributed energy resources

Mission critical operations need a reliable power system that operates by supplementing the utility grid in parallel mode or autonomous island mode in a clean, optimized, low cost and resilient manner.

ETAP μGrid™ (Microgrid) includes an advanced electrical digital twin model combined with intelligent automation and system protection to optimize and control complex electric and thermal systems.

Solutions

End-to-End Solution

ETAP Microgrid Control offers an integrated model-driven design software and control hardware solution to develop, simulate, optimize, test, and deploy microgrids with inherent capability to fine-tune the logics for maximum system resiliency.

Microgrid Design & Validation

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ETAP Microgrid software allows for design, modeling, analysis, islanding detection, optimization and control of microgrids.

ETAP Microgrid software includes a set of fundamental modeling tools, built-in analysis modules, and engineering device libraries that allow you to create, configure, customize, and manage your system model. Microgrid controller response can be verified and validated prior to connecting it into the field.

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  • Detailed modeling, simulation and optimization
  • Virtual microgrid controller element modeling and control logics
  • Develop new control functions
  • Enhance and tune existing functions
  • Test and validate logics
  • Modeling of photovoltaic, energy storage devices, diesel generators, wind turbines, gas & steam generators, fuel cells, etc.
  • Simulate microgrid systems on timescales of electromagnetic transients, dynamic & steady-state behavior
  • 3-phase and 1-phase AC & DC network one-line diagrams
  • Verified & Validated Engineering Libraries based on equipment manufacturers’ published data
  • Predictive analysis and forecasting of loads and generation

Microgrid Controller

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ETAP offers a fully programmable model-driven microgrid controller that provides considerable flexibility to achieve desired control functionalities. Once the controller logic is deployed to the ETAP Microgrid controller hardware software-in-the-loop (SIL) or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), testing can be utilized where the physical controller interacts with the model of the microgrid and associated devices.

ETAP Microgrid Controller hardware is designed for environments while delivering optimal performance, fast response, and security.

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  • Rugged design
  • Native DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850 communication protocols
  • Update controller logics without decommissioning
  • Supports Linux and Windows
  • Local and system controllers
  • Collect data from field-deployed microgrid controllers
  • Get diagnostics and apply software updates remotely
  • Integrated alarm, warning & acknowledgement
  • IP40 ingress protection

Engineering Services

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ETAP offers engineering services in the entire process of design, analysis, monitoring and programming of control functions based on user requirements.

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  • Microgrid planning and expert engineering services
  • Feasibility study & system Analysis
  • Microgrid design, logic & optimization
  • Derive controller settings
  • Renewable & battery sizing
  • Cost saving analysis
  • Controller evaluation
  • Microgrid deployment & integration
  • Microgrid Solution as a Service (MSaaS) with remote-hosting

ETAP Microgrid Management System is an-all-inclusive holistic software and hardware platform that provides complete system automation for safe and reliable operation.

The solution integrates with onsite Cogeneration, Solar PV, Energy Storage, Absorption Chillers, and more to manage load demand and cost-effective generation in real-time.

Challenge

Meeting Design & Operational Challenges

Optimal Design & Validation

  • How to guarantee that your microgrid will operate under actual real-time conditions as it was designed for?
  • Would a predictive model of the microgrid help you consider real-world situations and scenarios?
  • How do you optimize and fine-tune your design to meet operational and business objectives?
  • How do you validate the control logics and prove your optimization algorithms and planned forecasts?

 

Operational Resiliency

  • Safeguard against power interruptions
  • Proactively adapt to system changes, unexpected events and disturbances

 

Decarbonization & Decentralization

  • Demand for effective energy sustainability and carbon footprint reduction
  • Effective management and optimization of distributed generation and load assets

 

Lower the Cost of Engineer, Operation & Maintenance

  • Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing the cost of electricity (COE).
  • Manage and decrease the Operations & Maintenance cost
  • Ensuring that supply and demand are met and optimized at all times within the agreed and empowered electricity prices and programs.
Benefits

Benefits

 

Use ETAP Digital Twin to design, analyze, and validate, and configure the microgrid system, objectives, and logics. Validate controller logic with ETAP software-in-the-loop (SIL) or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems then simply transfer the model to ETAP Microgrid Controller to deploy.

After deployment, the controllers can control live microgrids via their communication systems and can be fine-tuned and re-deployed instantly without any decommissioning. Use the controller hardware to view, adjust parameters, set up function, update logics via easy to use HMIs that consolidates all necessary information.

Intelligent real-time situational awareness and forecast-driven predictive simulations to reliably and accurately determine short-term loading and generation, especially from inconsistent sources such as wind and solar.

ETAP Microgrid automatically identifies and adapts to system changes using proven control and optimization algorithms to handle unexpected events. Proactive generation dispatch and switching control logics regulate voltage and frequency for system preservation during and after an islanded condition.

ETAP’s Advanced Microgrid Management Control considers and responds to multiple contingencies simultaneously to preserve critical loads.

Evaluate energy-reducing strategies such as moving on-peak usage to off-peak periods or shifting from one rate schedule to another to improve the bottom line. Fast load curtailment and remedial actions based on load and generation changes and priorities.

  • Fully integrated system with ETAP SCADA, Load Shedding, DERMS- support all com protocols
  • Scalable, flexible, configurable, secure, redundant software / hardware controller platform
  • Optional advanced customization for special applications and functions to meet any customer’s needs
  • Expert services in microgird system design, automation, and operation
 
 
Key Features

Features & Capabilities

 
  • Model-driven microgrid solution supported with full spectrum AC & DC analysis
  • Detailed modeling, simulation and optimization of microgrid system in study mode
  • Intuitive graphical and scripting tools to develop and test control logics and user-defined functions
  • Virtualized functions implementation for flexible deployment across multi-platforms
  • Modeling of renewable sources and distributed resources, such as Solar PV, Wind, DGs, and Energy Storage System (ESS)
  • Built-in logics for dispatch, islanding and load forecasting
  • Load and generation forecasting
  • Automated predictive “what-if” simulation validates controller actions in real-time mode
  • Utilize archived data for system analysis
  • Integrated SCADA, ADMS, DERMS and Business Intelligence Dashboards
  • Incorporate predictive simulations as part of control decisions to achieve maximum system performance
  • Rugged microgrid controller hardware
  • Easy to set up and communicate with other microgrid assets
  • Tools to interact with real-time simulators for Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing

 

Applications

  • Dispatch energy resources
  • Facilitate transition to islanded mode and back
  • Facilitate microgrid black start
  • Supervisory control during islanded mode
  • Facilitate seamless integration of DERs
  • Improve the stability of system by supporting the frequency and voltage of the grid at PCC
  • Provide grid management functions: Real and Reactive power support
  • Load vs. Generation capacity balancing
  • Fast Load Shedding, Automatic Generation Control and Demand Management

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Intelligent Microgrid Management - Part 1

49:25 Webinar

ETAP's μGrid™ solution combines model-driven microgrid controller hardware with advanced power management software to unlock system resiliency, optimized cost, security, and sustainability for microgrid systems. Part I of the webinar series focuses on microgrid design and software-based validation.

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Intelligent Microgrid Management - Part 2

26:45 Webinar

This webinar examines the microgrid controller’s architecture, hardware deployment workflow, and a range of advanced monitoring tools. Learn how ETAP Digital Twin platform enables the design and deployment of ETAP's Intelligent μGrid™ solution.

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Stability Studies for Power Systems with DERs

1:10:24 Webinar

In this webinar, learn how ETAP's Transient Stability module addresses needs and challenges of stability studies for power systems with DERs.

Webinar about how ETAP software manages Battery Energy Storage

 

Battery Energy Storage Systems

59:58 Webinar

This webinar demonstrated how the integration of battery energy storage systems improves system reliability and performance, offers renewable smoothing, and can increase profit margins of renewable farm owners.

 
 


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