ResiNet Project#
This is the site of RESINET - Resilient Network project. The main goal of the project is to address the challenges related to moving from a distribution grid with Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) towards a “grid-connected microgrid”. This requires designing robust, reliable, and cyber-secure algorithmic strategies for controlling and coordinating the various DERs.
This project contributes to tackling these challenges through two main avenues:
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Design control and scheduling algorithms to ensure the synchronization (grid forming) and coordination (secondary control) of multiple DERs within a microgrid. The main milestone will be to operate multiple converters within a microgrid as parallel grid-forming units. Indeed, commercial systems available today typically consist of a single grid-forming converter, with all other converters operating in grid-following mode, a setup prone to single-point failures. Migrating towards synchronized converters (all operating in grid-forming mode) will enable a more resilient setup.
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Design a risk analysis for all microgrids’ components and derive practices to minimize the probability of microgrid failures. Cybersecurity, critical for guaranteeing secure operations of power electronics-intensive communicating systems such as microgrids, will be explicitly considered. The ultimate goal will be to integrate both online and offline contingency plans in the algorithms developed in point 1. Given the importance of cybersecurity, the project intends to deliver a set of guidelines for future deployments of grid-connected microgrids.