OPAL-RT Real-Time Simulator for Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Research

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Emerging technologies enables the transition to a blended energy landscape where renewable energy becomes a significant contributor to our modern society. The advancement of renewable energy is exciting but also creates significant technical challenges to the power industry. The current power system infrastructure is based on an architecture designed a century ago, which relies on large, centrally controlled power plants with predictable outputs. Renewable energy, on the other hand, is distributed, independently controlled, and intermittent. Due to such an incompatibility, adapting the power grid to operate reliably with renewable energy sources is a complicated global challenge. Microgrids are becoming increasingly popular as grid-connected or isolated small-scale power systems, typically managing a group of renewable and/or conventional distributed generators, energy storage systems, and loads within a defined electrical boundary. Microgrids are considered to be a technically feasible option to improve sustainability, resilience, and energy efficiency.