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The document summarizes the benefits of microgrids. It discusses how microgrids improve electric reliability by keeping power flowing when the central grid fails. Microgrids also enhance resilience by avoiding or quickly recovering from power outages. They can lower energy costs for consumers and businesses while improving the environment through clean energy integration. Microgrids strengthen the central grid and offer cybersecurity protections through their distributed architecture. They provide economic and community benefits by keeping jobs local and powering critical facilities during disasters.

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Sample Micro Grid Test Bed Environment and Effects of Micro Grid BY

The document summarizes the benefits of microgrids. It discusses how microgrids improve electric reliability by keeping power flowing when the central grid fails. Microgrids also enhance resilience by avoiding or quickly recovering from power outages. They can lower energy costs for consumers and businesses while improving the environment through clean energy integration. Microgrids strengthen the central grid and offer cybersecurity protections through their distributed architecture. They provide economic and community benefits by keeping jobs local and powering critical facilities during disasters.

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SAMPLE MICRO GRID TEST BED

ENVIRONMENT AND EFFECTS OF


MICRO GRID

BY,
JANANI SHRRI J.-1703077
SANDHYA S.-1703099
MICRO GRID TESTBED
What is a micro grid?
• Micro grid is a collection of distributed energy resources
(DER) that insure high power quality and can also be
seamlessly connected to a wider distribution system.
What is Micro grid Testbed?
• Micro grid Testbed is a collection of HIL
devices with integrated DER controllers,
protection relays and micro grid
controllers.
Purpose of micro grid testbed
The main purpose of the Micro grid Testbed is to
comprehensively test Micro grid controller’s hardware,
firmware, software and communications under all operating
conditions including faults in both the island and grid-
connected mode.
• To reach a high level of test productivity, the Micro grid
Testbed performs all its tests and generates test reports
automatically.
Sample micro grid testbed environment
EFFECTS OF MICRO GRID
ELECTRIC RELIABILITY
Among microgrid benefits, electric reliability
has gotten the most attention since 2012
when Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to
about eight million electric customers in the
District of Columbia.

Microgrids keep the power flowing by disconnecting


or islanding from the central grid when it begins
to fail.

The microgrid’s generators, and possibly batteries,


then serve the microgrid’s customers until power
is restored on the central grid.
RESILIENCE
While reliability is about keeping the power on, resilience
describes the ability to avoid power outages in the first place
or to recover quickly if they do occur.
In some cases, a microgrid immediately restores power to
an entire building or operation, leaving occupants barely
aware a disturbance occurred.
In other cases, a microgrid is programmed to restore only
critical services within a facility.
Lowering energy costs for consumers
and businesses
Microgrids can both reduce costs and provide a revenue
stream for their customers.
They supply revenue by selling energy and services back to
the grid.
This gives consumers a new kind of control in energy markets.
They no longer just consume energy, but also can produce
and control it through their microgrids.
Improving the environment and
promoting clean energy
Microgrids can employ a wide range of green power
production technologies.
These include solar, wind, fuel cells,
combined heat and power (CHP) plants, and energy
storage technologies.
Microgrids integrate these renewables into the energy
mix intelligently.
They seamlessly balance the variable output of
renewable energy with traditional generation assets.
Strengthening the central grid
In addition to serving its own customers, a microgrid
benefits neighbours, as well, when its used to strengthen
the broader electric grid.

Microgrids can help to ease the strain on the central grid


during periods of peak demand.

They act as an additional resource grid operators can


call upon during these periods.

As microgrids are less expensive to build and maintain,


they can act as ‘non-wires alternatives’ — a resource
built to improve reliability in lieu of more
expensive grid repairs or upgrades.
CYBER SECURITY
Distributed architecture provides the core of microgrid cybersecurity, offering
different forms of protection.
First, distributed assets are more difficult for cyberterrorists to attack.
Second, microgrids offer inherent redundancies.
A cybersecure microgrid also enables monitoring of internal communications and
system processes to identify abnormal events during operations.
This includes real-time alerts and the creation of security audit logs for operator
awareness of the system’s security posture, its level of availability, and potential
anomalies, all without affecting the microgrid’s operation.
IMPROVING THE ECONOMIC
VALUE TO SOCIETY
Microgrids offer economic value to society in several ways.
First, they avert loss of product and work days during a
power outage.
Second, they attract high quality employers to a region.
Third, as local energy plants, they keep jobs within the
community.
IMPROVING THE COMMUNITY
WELL-BEING
When a storm or other disaster knocks out power,at best
it’s an inconvenience,at worst it’s a health and safety
threat, especially if critical facilities cannot operate.
As a result, more and more communities are installing
microgrids to serve hospitals, police stations, fire
departments, communications centers and wastewater
treatment plants.
The geographic region served by the microgrid becomes
an island of power.
Sometimes shelters and grocery stores and gas stations
are included within the microgrid’s service area.
CONCLUSION
A microgrid benefits its customers and society in
many ways.
Through sophisticated, automated energy
management, a microgrid can bolster clean energy
use and can create economic value for customers
as well as the broader grid.
THANK YOU

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