Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network
This paper presents a novel architecture for rural distribution grids. This architecture is designed to modernize traditional rural networks into new Smart Grid ones. The architecture tackles innovation actions on both the power plane and the management plane of the system. In the power plane, the a...
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| author | Francesc Girbau-Llistuella Francisco Díaz-González Andreas Sumper Ramon Gallart-Fernández Daniel Heredero-Peris |
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| description | This paper presents a novel architecture for rural distribution grids. This architecture is designed to modernize traditional rural networks into new Smart Grid ones. The architecture tackles innovation actions on both the power plane and the management plane of the system. In the power plane, the architecture focuses on exploiting the synergies between telecommunications and innovative technologies based on power electronics managing low scale electrical storage. In the management plane, a decentralized management system is proposed based on the addition of two new agents assisting the typical Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system of distribution system operators. Altogether, the proposed architecture enables operators to use more effectively—in an automated and decentralized way—weak rural distribution systems, increasing the capability to integrate new distributed energy resources. This architecture is being implemented in a real Pilot Network located in Spain, in the frame of the European Smart Rural Grid project. The paper also includes a study case showing one of the potentialities of one of the principal technologies developed in the project and underpinning the realization of the new architecture: the so-called Intelligent Distribution Power Router. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc222a9e645e42d6887bd876be35accb2022-12-22T03:45:43ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732018-04-0111484410.3390/en11040844en11040844Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot NetworkFrancesc Girbau-Llistuella0Francisco Díaz-González1Andreas Sumper2Ramon Gallart-Fernández3Daniel Heredero-Peris4Centre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments (CITCEA-UPC), Departament d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ETS d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 647, Pl. 2, 08028 Barcelona, SpainCentre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments (CITCEA-UPC), Departament d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ETS d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 647, Pl. 2, 08028 Barcelona, SpainCentre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments (CITCEA-UPC), Departament d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ETS d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 647, Pl. 2, 08028 Barcelona, SpainEstabanell Energia, C. del Rec, 28, 08401 Granollers, SpainCentre d’Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments (CITCEA-UPC), Departament d’Enginyeria Elèctrica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ETS d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 647, Pl. 2, 08028 Barcelona, SpainThis paper presents a novel architecture for rural distribution grids. This architecture is designed to modernize traditional rural networks into new Smart Grid ones. The architecture tackles innovation actions on both the power plane and the management plane of the system. In the power plane, the architecture focuses on exploiting the synergies between telecommunications and innovative technologies based on power electronics managing low scale electrical storage. In the management plane, a decentralized management system is proposed based on the addition of two new agents assisting the typical Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system of distribution system operators. Altogether, the proposed architecture enables operators to use more effectively—in an automated and decentralized way—weak rural distribution systems, increasing the capability to integrate new distributed energy resources. This architecture is being implemented in a real Pilot Network located in Spain, in the frame of the European Smart Rural Grid project. The paper also includes a study case showing one of the potentialities of one of the principal technologies developed in the project and underpinning the realization of the new architecture: the so-called Intelligent Distribution Power Router.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/4/844intelligent distribution power routerrural distribution networkssmart grid technologies |
| spellingShingle | Francesc Girbau-Llistuella Francisco Díaz-González Andreas Sumper Ramon Gallart-Fernández Daniel Heredero-Peris Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network Energies intelligent distribution power router rural distribution networks smart grid technologies |
| title | Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network |
| title_full | Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network |
| title_fullStr | Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network |
| title_short | Smart Grid Architecture for Rural Distribution Networks: Application to a Spanish Pilot Network |
| title_sort | smart grid architecture for rural distribution networks application to a spanish pilot network |
| topic | intelligent distribution power router rural distribution networks smart grid technologies |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/4/844 |
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