Microgrid Energy Management Solution
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 simple or complex microgrid electric and thermal systems.
End-to-End Solution
ETAP Microgrid Control offers an integrated model-driven solution to design, simulate, optimize, test, and control microgrids with inherent capability to fine-tune the logic for maximum system resiliency and energy efficiency.
Microgrid Design & Validation
CloseETAP 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.
- 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
CloseETAP offers a fully configurable 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.
<1 MW
Portable Microgrid Controller
- Core i5-7300U
- 8 GB RAM
- 4x LAN
- 4x COM
- 1x Mini-P
< 20 MW
Mountable Microgrid Controller
- Core i7 1.7GHz
- 16 GB RAM
- 8x LAN
- 10x COM
- 2x Slot
> 20 MW
Mountable Microgrid Controller
- Xeon E3 2 GHz
- 32 GB RAM
- 8x LAN
- 10x COM
- 2x Slot
- 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
CloseETAP offers engineering services in the entire process of design, analysis, monitoring and programming of control functions based on user requirements.
- 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 Energy 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.
Meeting Design & Operational Challenges
Optimal Microgrid Design & Validation
- Optimization techniques to evaluate design feasibility
- Configure and compare a variety of scenarios to analyze technical performance
- Validate microgrid system design and logic incorporating historical, present, or forecasted conditions
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 Engineering, 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.
Microgrid Controller Benefits
Design, Validate, Deploy
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.
Proven-engines & field-tested controls
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.
Situational Intelligence & Awareness
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.
Proactive & Adaptive Microgrid Management System
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.
High Speed Contingency Handling
ETAP’s Advanced Microgrid Management Control considers and responds to multiple contingencies simultaneously to preserve critical loads.
Optimal Load Shedding & Demand Management
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.
Other Benefits
- 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
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
Microgrid Controller 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
Learn how to maximize uptime and optimize microgrid operations
Learn about ETAP Microgrid, an integrated solution used to efficiently evaluate and optimize microgrid systems. The solution enables simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing for microgrid systems using data-driven technology and built-in functions. This presentation covers the definition of a microgrid, the integration of various energy sources, and the importance of high performance solutions for enhancing energy resilience. Demonstrations of specific scenarios are provided for both grid-tied and off-grid microgrids. The hardware-in-loop testing capabilities are also demonstrated, showcasing the real-time digital simulator and its application for testing and validating microgrid controller functions. By addressing the complexities of microgrid system analysis, management, and control, ETAP Microgrid contributes to cost and time-saving benefits.
Power, Efficiency, and Stability for Off-Grid Microgrid Control
Learn how the ETAP Microgrid Controller solution leverages an electrical digital twin from design to validation and automation of Off-Grid (permanently Islanded) Microgrids. In this session, active and reactive power control, optimal dispatch and secondary frequency control will be demonstrated.
Seamless Transition of Microgrids - From Grid-Connected to Islanded Mode
This webinar outlines how ETAP Microgrid Control Solution devises and implements adaptive strategies to enable a smooth transition between grid-connected and islanded modes during unplanned islanding.
Intelligent Microgrid Management - Part 1
ETAP's μGrid™ solution combines model-driven microgrid controller hardware with advanced power management software to unlock system resiliency, optimized cost, security, and sustainability. This webinar focuses on microgrid design and software-based validation.
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Intelligent Microgrid Management - Part 2
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.
Stability Studies for Power Systems with DERs
As more Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are added and mixed into the grid, the need to effectively evaluate and validate the dynamic response of power systems has become essential for grid resiliency, reliability, and security. In this webinar, learn how ETAP Transient Stability Analysis addresses needs and challenges of stability studies for power systems with integrated DERs.
Modeling and Analysis of a Microgrid for a Wastewater Treatment Plant - AECOM
Engineering and operation objectives of mission-critical facilities require a reliable and secure power supply system. Microgrids have become the leading technological solution for a resilient and sustainable supply of electricity for critical infrastructures. This paper presents ETAP-based power system studies of a microgrid designed for a mission-critical facility, a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The microgrid consists of a behind-the-meter (BTM) solar photovoltaic (PV) system, a battery energy storage system (BESS), a combined heat and power (CHP) generator, and standby diesel generators. We modeled this microgrid by leveraging the ETAP software and performed power system studies for both grid-connected and islanded modes of operation. Several scenarios were created based on different loading conditions and power source combinations, which are utilized to validate the power system studies. We will discuss the model of the power system investigated, operational strategy and sequences of operation, findings, challenges, lessons learned, and future works.
How ETAP Microgrid Controllers manage the Red Sea Utility off-grid Microgrids in Tabuk
The Red Sea Utility Grid is in the Tabuk province of Saudi Arabia. The site is a vast 33,000 km2 of islands, lagoon, coastal plain and mountains with extremely diverse marine life and terrestrial landforms. The grid is divided into four off-grid microgrids. The focus of this presentation is about three of the microgrids that are very similar in size and operation. Each of these microgrids includes two PV generation (total 6 MW), two battery storages (total 5MW, ~18 MWh), and two emergency backup diesel generators (~ total 3.8 MW). The system is designed to achieve high reliability by having redundancy at various levels.
Microgrid controller solution for AWS Larsen and Toubro
Microgrid Analysis & Design is an essential step for Microgrid Implementation. Upfront design and analysis of the target microgrid system, whether for brownfield or green-field Microgrid implementation, can help drive both technical and financial benefits, including determining optimized generation assets required to meet the microgrid objectives as well as a projection of return on investments. Analysis & design from safety, reliability, and financial perspective are critical for successful microgrid implementation to minimize the impact and rework during the installation phase. This presentation will provide recommendations on best practices for Microgrid Analysis & Design.
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