This Electric Avenue segment will focus on:
- Identifying the challenges to national, regional and local power systems
- Defining the path to resiliency via deployment of microgrids
- The best way to facilitate multiple forms of energy use, i.e. AC and DC
- Lowering the cost and increasing the employment of grid edge power delivery
- Utility networking of power in resilient local microgrid mesh to handle peak loads and islanding events
Some architectural and interconnection considerations include:
- Why and where storage is significant
- Peak load strategies for EV charging and electric heat pump loads
- DC coupled bi-directional power flow
- Grid and local virtual power network combinations
- Including mixed use commercial facility loads
- H2 fuel cells for large capacity backup generation
- High instantaneous load profile challenges
The utility market segment is already implementing basic microgrids in their infrastructure topologies, but future advanced considerations are already in the works, including:
- Autonomous microgrid power management
- Fault-Managed Power
- Bi-directional capability
- H2 long term storage
- Virtual PP networks
