SBIR Phase I: Integrated High Speed Intelligent Utility Tie Unit for Disbursed/Renewable Generation Facilities

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目提出了一种新方法，可以显著提高支付/可再生发电设施的运行可靠性和质量。由于美国加州的电价上涨和轮流停电，电力业界一致认为，通过可再生能源发电设施进行分配发电或分布式发电是未来公用事业行业的最佳选择之一。当地可再生能源设施与公用事业供应之间存在严重的协调不匹配。如果发生外部故障，本地用户将断电，则需要手动断开断路器，手动接通本地发电设施供电等。这不仅会造成运行可靠性和服务质量的严重问题，而且会给个人用户带来极大的不便。提出的创新是开发一种智能公用事业监控、控制和保护系统，该系统可以保证无论内部和外部故障都能顺利向用户供电。这项技术的商业影响将是显著的成本节约。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes a novel approach that can significantly improve the operational reliability and quality for disbursed/renewable generation facilities. Due to price hikes and rotating blackouts in California, the power industry has reached a consensus that disbursed or distributed generation via renewable generation facilities seems to be one of the best alternatives for future utility industry. There is a serious coordination mismatch between the local renewable power facility and the utility supply. If external faults occur, the local user will be out of power, will need to manually disconnect tiebreaker, manually connect the local generation facility to provide power, etc. This will not only cause serious problems in operation reliability and quality of service, but also significant inconvenience to the individual users. The innovation proposed is to develop an intelligent utility tie monitoring, control, and protection system that can guarantee a smooth delivery of power to the user irrespective of internal and external faults. The commercial impact of this technology would be a significant cost savings.