Sandia's Grid Modernization Program Newsletter | May 2018
Covering such topics as energy storage, renewable energy integration,
transmission planning and operations, defense energy, and cybersecurity, Sandia's
quarterly Grid Modernization Program Newsletter features research highlights, upcoming
events, technical achievements, and new publications and patents. News stories are
also available on Sandia's Grid Modernization website. Enjoy!
In this Issue:
Innovative Microgrid
Solutions Could Enhance Community Resilience
In a new report released by the US. Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC),
researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory suggest that a
series of resilience nodes—clusters of critical infrastructure services powered
by microgrids—could quickly restore power to hospitals, emergency response
facilities, grocery stores, and other lifeline services during extended grid
outages. The team used the Urban Resilience Planning Process—an approach
developed by Sandia to improve community resilience through infrastructure investments—to
analyze severe weather threats in New Orleans and evaluate potential solutions.
As a follow on to the project, Sandia will work with New Orleans to apply the Microgrid
Design Toolkit, a recent R&D 100 award winner, to three of the
potential resiliency node locations. Sandia will also use the approach for a
new GMLC project, Designing Resilient Communities, to work with San
Antonio, TX and Buffalo, NY.
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New Control Concept for Grid Resilience Demonstrated at SWiFT
Through a Small Business
Voucher collaboration with Group NIRE and Baylor University, Sandia
researchers demonstrated that a wind turbine at the Scaled
Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility can modulate real power for grid
stability. Control signals were routed from Phasor Measurement
Units (PMUs) monitoring the local SWiFT grid to the Control
& Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies (CONET) lab in
Albuquerque back out to the SWiFT turbine in Lubbock, which successfully
modulated the power onto the local grid. This new control concept could be
deployed to current and future wind turbines on the grid to enhance grid
resiliency nationwide.
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Sandia’s Cyber Technology
Successfully Integrated into Operational Microgrid
During a
recent demonstration by Sandia and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), a
simulated adversary scanned Ft. Belvoir’s microgrid control system without
cyber defense technology activated and was able to login to systems. Then, the
team enabled Sandia’s Artificial Diversity and Defense Security, or “ADDSec,”
coupled with SEL’s Software Defined Networking (SDN)-capable switch and
repeated the simulation. The ADDSec technology detected the abnormal
behavior and automatically triggered a response—in this case, IP randomization.
IP randomization made the information the adversary obtained invalid, which stopped them
from logging in to the systems they discovered. The demonstration also showed
that Sandia and SEL’s technologies can work together using two other open
source SDN controllers—OpenDaylight and Ryu—allowing anyone compatible with
these controllers to implement this solution.
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Two New Energy Storage Projects will Add Resilience
and Reduce Costs in Arizona and Oregon
Sandia is partnering with two utilities to install energy storage
systems that could increase resiliency and save costs. The
first project will evaluate the use of energy storage for the Anza
Electric Cooperative in
partnership with the Arizona Electric Power Cooperative and National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association. Sandia will help with the procurement of the
energy storage system by providing sizing and other parameters and then assess
its effectiveness in deferring transmission upgrades and providing a resilient
power supply. Second, Sandia will work with the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) and
Oregon Department of Energy to install an energy storage system with a capacity
of 500kW. The system will be used for day-to-day applications at a local school
and to supply backup power if the grid goes down. It will also provide
support to the EWEB grid. Sandia will use data from the system to conduct
economic analysis and develop interconnection standards for energy storage. Both projects are in partnership with the Clean Energy
States Alliance (CESA) and funded by the DOE Office of Electricity and Energy Reliability (OE) Energy Storage Program led by Dr. Imre
Gyuk.
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Jay Johnson Shares How to Automate Inverter Testing using
Controller Hardware in the Loop Technology
In an Industry Spotlight video and blog
produced by Typhoon HIL, Sandia’s Jay Johnson discusses his current
research, “Design and
Evaluation of SunSpec-Compliant Smart Grid Controller with an Automated Hardware-in-the-Loop
Testbed.” Jay explains how a new revision to IEEE 1547—a standard for
interconnecting distributed energy resources (DERs) with electric power
systems—will require the resources to include different advanced inverter
functions. In his research, Jay used a controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL)
system to perform certification tests to verify and validate an inverter is
compliant with the requirements. This automated CHIL technology allowed
experiments to be conducted prior to deploying DER technology and can be completed
in hours rather than days of manual calculations.
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Webinar Available:
Energy Storage Project Proves
its Worth in Sterling, MA
In a webinar
presented by the Energy
Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), Sandia joined other
partners to explain how the Sterling Municipal Light Department’s energy
storage project saved nearly $400,000 for the town’s ratepayers during the
first year of operation. The webinar also provided information on a second
energy storage project being undertaken by Sterling in conjunction with a
community solar installation. The webinar was presented by experts from Sandia, DOE OE, and the Sterling Municipal Light Department and hosted by CESA.
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Sandia Researchers Present Two IEEE Smart Grid Webinars
On February
15, Matthew Reno presented an IEEE Smart Grid webinar on “Advances
in Distribution System Time-Series Analysis for Studying DER Impacts.” Over
400 attendees listened to the advantages of time series analysis and the
research that has been done to dramatically decrease the amount of time
required to complete accurate quasi-static time-series (QSTS) simulations. On April 12, David Copp
presented, “Distributed
Control for Improving Power System Stability” and shared how modulating power
transfer along a high voltage DC transmission line and injecting real power
from distributed energy storage devices can be used to improve the small-signal
stability of large power systems.
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New Webinar Series
Highlights Role of Energy Storage in Future Electric Power Sector
Sandia’s Energy Storage program is partnering with Strategen
Consulting to host a new
webinar series that will bring together top thought leaders to discuss a
wide range of topics affecting the role of energy storage in the future of the
electric power sector. The first of four webinars, Storage for Resilience – Part I: Applications & Technologies, was held April 12 to help participants
understand the concept of grid resilience and explore applications and
technologies for energy storage in utility, commercial, and residential
contexts. Storage for
Resilience – Part II: Deploying Storage for Resilience, on
May 10, discusses how storage can be planned and
deployed for resilience applications and includes case studies of projects
that use storage to improve resilience.
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Sandia
Organizes Three Symposia at Spring MRS Symposium
During the Materials
Research Society (MRS) Spring Symposium April 2-6, Sandia’s researchers
organized three symposia to discuss flow batteries for grid energy storage,
harvesting natural and human-made energy sources, and solid-state super ion
conductors. The MRS meeting is a platform to present research to an
interdisciplinary and international audience.
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10th PV Systems
Symposium
Co-sponsored by Sandia, CFV Solar Test Laboratory, and the Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI), this three-day workshop held May 1-3 examined the technical challenges and
opportunities related to photovoltaic (PV) systems and their grid integration. The grid
integration portion included a tutorial
for IEEE 1547, a tutorial for applying a distributed energy resource management
system, and a workshop on firming and shaping renewables.
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Save the Date: Enabling Advanced Power Electronics Technologies
for the Next Generation Electric Utility Grid Workshop
Sandia is hosting the workshop "Enabling Advanced Power Electronics
Technologies for the Next-Generation Electric Utility Grid” on July 17-18 at
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town in Albuquerque, NM. Participants from government
agencies, national laboratories, industry, and universities will meet to
gain a broader understanding of power electronics R&D needs—from materials
to systems—for the next-generation electric utility grid. The workshop includes
sessions on the role of power electronics for the next- generation grid, the
current state-of-the-art in power electronics, and the need for components and
topologies.
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Save the Date: DOE Energy Storage Peer Review
On behalf of DOE OE, Sandia will host the 2018 Energy Storage Program Peer Review September 25-27 at the Eldorado Resort and
Spa in Santa Fe, NM. During this two-day meeting, principal investigators of DOE OE projects will present summaries of their work and progress during the year. Research areas include energy storage materials,
power electronics, safety and reliability, analytics, codes and standards
activities, demonstration projects and industry acceptance, and strategic
outreach activities.
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Upcoming Events
Join Sandia's grid experts at the following external engagements
in the coming months:
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5/13-16/18: Defense TechConnect Spring Conference & Expo, Anaheim,
CA
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5/16-18/18: DoD Arctic Science & Technology
Synchronization Workshop, Hanover, NH
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6/14/18: Energy Storage as a Wholesale Market Participant:
Rules, Barriers, and Opportunities Webinar
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6/20-22/18: IEEE Symposium on
Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM 2018),
Almafi Coast, Italy
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7/12/18: Rate Design Trends for Behind-the-Meter
Storage Webinar
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7/17-18/18: Enabling Advanced
Power Electronics Technologies for the Next Generation Electric Utility Grid
Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
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8/5-9/18: IEEE PES General
Meeting, Portland, OR
Grid Innovation at
Sandia Recognized with Two R&D 100 Awards
On March 14th, Sandia participated in a recognition ceremony
at DOE OE to honor
two technologies that recently received R&D 100 awards. Both projects
were supported by DOE OE’s Advanced Grid R&D Division and have major
implications for improving the resilience and reliability of the nation’s power
grid: The Microgrid
Design Toolkit (MDT) is a decision support software tool that is intended
to be used in the preliminary design phase to aid designers in creating optimal
microgrids. The Control
System for Active Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations uses measurement data,
acquired in real-time, from phasor measurement units, recently installed
throughout the western North American Power System.
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Publications
D. G. Enos, S. R. Ferreira, H.
M. Barkholtz, W. Baca, and S. Fenstermacher, Understanding Function and
Performance of Carbon Additives in Lead-Acid Batteries, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Volume 164, No. 13, Pages A3276-A3284, 2017.
D. Rosewater,
S. Ferreira, and D. Schoenwald, J. Hawkins, S. Santoso, Battery Energy Storage
State-of-Charge Forecasting: Models, Optimization, and Accuracy, IEEE
Transactions on Smart Grid (Early Access), January 2018.
D. L. Woodruff,
J. Deride, A. Staid, J.P. Watson, G. Slevogt, C. Silva-Monroy, Constructing Probabilistic Scenarios for Wide-area Solar Power Generation, Solar Energy,
Volume 160, Pages 153-167, January 2018.
F.
Wilches-Bernal, R. Concepcion, J. C. Neely, R. H. Byrne, A. Ellis, Communication Enabled—Fast
Acting Imbalance Reserve (CE-FAIR), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 1101-1103, January 2018.
J. Deboever, S.
Grijalva, M. J. Reno, and R. J. Broderick, Fast
Quasi-Static Time-Series (QSTS) for Yearlong PV Impact Studies using Vector Quantization,
Solar Energy, Volume 159, Pages 538-547, January 1, 2018.
Y. Dvorkin, R.
Fernandez-Blanco, Y. Wang, B. Xu, D. S. Kirschen, H. Pandzic, J.P. Watson, C.
A. Silva-Monroy, Co-Planning
of Investments in Transmission and Merchant Energy Storage, Volume 33,
Issue 1, January 2018.
E. Allcorn, G.
Nagasubramanian, H.D. Pratt III, E. Spoerke, D. Ingersoll, Elimination
of Active Species Crossover in a Room Temperature, Neutral pH, Aqueous Flow Battery using a Ceramic NaSICON Membrane, Journal of Power Sources, Volume
378, Pages 353-361, February 2018.
J. F. Ellison,
L. J. Rashkin, J. Serio, R. H. Byrne, The
Benefits of Grid-Scale Storage on Oahu, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume
15, Pages 336-344, February 2018.
E. A. Paisley, M. T. Brumbach, C.
T. Shelton, A. A. Allerman, S. Atcitty, C. M. Rost, J. A. Ohlhausen, B. L.
Doyle, Z. Sitar, J.P. Maria, J. F. Ihlefled, Nitride Surface Chemistry Influence on Band Offsets at Epitaxial Oxide/GaN Interfaces,
Applied Physics Letters, 112, 092903, March 2018.
J. Johnson, R.
Ablinger, R. Bruendlinger, B. Fox, J. Flicker, Interconnection
Standard Grid-Support Function Evaluations Using an Automated
Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed, IEEE Journal
of Photovoltaics, Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 565-571, March 2018.
Z. K. Pecenak,
V. R. Disfani, M. J. Reno, J. Kleissl, Multiphase Distribution
Feeder Reduction, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 33, Issue 2,
March 2018.
Patents
J. Johnson, Patent No. 9897642, 02/20/18: Detection of
Arcing Location on Photovoltaic Systems Using Filters
Patent Application file 01/10/18: Method to Provide Meta-stable Operation of a
DC Microgrid Comprising a Pulsed Load
Patent Application filed 01/19/18: Cell Level Micro-Dual
Active Bridbe Controller for Precise Energy Storage Management
Patent Application filed 02/28/18: Block Copolymers
including Poly(phenylene) and Methods Thereof
Patent Application filed 03/05/18: Halo-Containing Anion Exchange
Membranes and Methods Thereof
Patent Application filed 03/20/18: Systems and Methods for
Active Damping Control of Inter-Area Oscillations in Large-Scale Interconnected
Power Systems
Patent Application filed 03/20/18: Systems and Methods using
Collaborative Controls to Maintain Anti-Islanding Standards
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