Facilities in Support of Research and Development of Residential Microgrids

该RTI应用程序的目标是通过提高其进行住宅微电网控制和能源管理实验的能力来扩展现有的微电网研究实验室，该实验涉及分阶段可再生能源资源和分阶段配电级电池存储。考虑一个社区，其中家庭被分成三组，并通过配电Transformer从不同的相（A、B、C）供电。由于不同的家庭将有不同的电力消耗模式，不同的可再生能源发电能力和存储能力（一些安装了电池组，一些电动汽车，其他人可能没有），这个系统将无法有效地运行，因为一些阶段可能有剩余的电力，而其他阶段可能有电力不足。为了确保在这种情况下的有效控制和功率管理，最近，已经开发了新的架构和控制策略，以通过将功率从低需求相旋转到高需求相来处理上述问题。然而，目前还没有设施可以对提出的解决方案进行实验测试，并在现实情况下进行验证。拟议的设备将有助于我们建造这些设施，以进行高级研究和HQP的实践培训。*这样一个设施的可用性是至关重要的，以确保开发的理论工作/概念可以得到充分验证，确定限制，并作出改进，使研究成果可以对人们的生活产生最大的影响，提高电能质量和更有效地利用可再生能源。在扩建设计期间，已尽最大努力确保利用现有设施只提供最基本的设备。该设施将由西部大学的其他四名电力系统研究人员及其各自的HQP共享，以便NSERC的投资将产生最大的影响，并将用于实现工业合作，为加拿大经济带来好处。

The objective of this RTI application is to expand an existing microgrid research laboratory by increasing its capability for carrying out experiments on control and energy management for residential microgrids involving phase-wise renewable energy resources and phase-wise battery storage at the distribution level. Consider a neighbourhood where families are separated into three groups, and powered from different phases (A, B, C) through the distribution transformer. Since different families will have different patterns for power consumption, different generation capacities from renewable energy resources, and storage capabilities (some with installed battery banks, some with electric vehicles, others may not have any), this system would not operate effectively, as some phases may have surplus power, while others may have power deficits.******To ensure effective control and power management in such situations, recently, new architectures and control strategies have been developed to deal with the above issues by wheeling power from low demand phases to high demand ones. However, there are no facilities at which the proposed solutions can be tested experimentally and validated under realistic scenarios. The proposed equipment will help us to construct such facilities to carry out advanced research and hands-on training of HQPs.******The availability of such a facility is crucial to ensure that the developed theoretical works/concepts can be fully validated, limitations identified, and improvements made so that the research outcome can have maximal impacts to people's lives with improved power quality and more effective utilization of renewable energy sources.******During the design for this expansion, ultimate efforts have been made to ensure that only the most essential equipment is requested by leveraging the existing facilities. The facility will be shared by four other power system researchers at Western University and their respective HQPs so that the investment from NSERC will make the greatest impacts, and will also be used to enable industrial collaborations that will bring benefits to the Canadian economy.