Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids
The increasing prevalence and severity of wildfires, severe storms, and cyberattacks is driving the introduction of numerous microgrids to improve resilience locally. While distributed energy resources (DERs), such as small-scale wind and solar photovoltaics with storage, will be major components in...
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| author | Bikash Poudel Linyu Lin Tyler Phillips Shannon Eggers Vivek Agarwal Timothy McJunkin |
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| description | The increasing prevalence and severity of wildfires, severe storms, and cyberattacks is driving the introduction of numerous microgrids to improve resilience locally. While distributed energy resources (DERs), such as small-scale wind and solar photovoltaics with storage, will be major components in future microgrids, today, the majority of microgrids are backed up with fossil-fuel-based generators. Small modular reactors (SMRs) can form synergistic mix with DERs due to their ability to provide baseload and flexible power. The heat produced by SMRs can also fulfill the heating needs of microgrid consumers. This paper discusses an operational scheme based on distributed control of flexible power assets to strengthen the operational resilience of SMR-DER integrated-energy microgrids. A framework is developed to assess the operational resilience of SMR-DER microgrids in terms of system adaptive real-power capacity quantified as a response area metric (<i>RAM</i>). Month-long simulation results are shown with a microgrid developed in a modified Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-30 bus system. The <i>RAM</i> values calculated along the operational simulation reflect the system resilience in real time and can be used to supervise the microgrid operation and reactor’s autonomous control. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-653b71e15f084e7fbfe5776779b8bb7e2023-11-23T16:19:56ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-01-0115378910.3390/en15030789Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy MicrogridsBikash Poudel0Linyu Lin1Tyler Phillips2Shannon Eggers3Vivek Agarwal4Timothy McJunkin5Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAIdaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAIdaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAIdaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAIdaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAIdaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USAThe increasing prevalence and severity of wildfires, severe storms, and cyberattacks is driving the introduction of numerous microgrids to improve resilience locally. While distributed energy resources (DERs), such as small-scale wind and solar photovoltaics with storage, will be major components in future microgrids, today, the majority of microgrids are backed up with fossil-fuel-based generators. Small modular reactors (SMRs) can form synergistic mix with DERs due to their ability to provide baseload and flexible power. The heat produced by SMRs can also fulfill the heating needs of microgrid consumers. This paper discusses an operational scheme based on distributed control of flexible power assets to strengthen the operational resilience of SMR-DER integrated-energy microgrids. A framework is developed to assess the operational resilience of SMR-DER microgrids in terms of system adaptive real-power capacity quantified as a response area metric (<i>RAM</i>). Month-long simulation results are shown with a microgrid developed in a modified Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-30 bus system. The <i>RAM</i> values calculated along the operational simulation reflect the system resilience in real time and can be used to supervise the microgrid operation and reactor’s autonomous control.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/3/789small modular reactorsdistributed energy resourcesintegrated-energy systemscogenerationoperational resilienceflexible operation |
| spellingShingle | Bikash Poudel Linyu Lin Tyler Phillips Shannon Eggers Vivek Agarwal Timothy McJunkin Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids Energies small modular reactors distributed energy resources integrated-energy systems cogeneration operational resilience flexible operation |
| title | Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids |
| title_full | Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids |
| title_fullStr | Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids |
| title_full_unstemmed | Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids |
| title_short | Operational Resilience of Nuclear-Renewable Integrated-Energy Microgrids |
| title_sort | operational resilience of nuclear renewable integrated energy microgrids |
| topic | small modular reactors distributed energy resources integrated-energy systems cogeneration operational resilience flexible operation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/3/789 |
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