Distributed energy resources are an increasingly important part of the electric grid. We examine the problem of partitioning a distributed energy resource among many users while providing privacy to them. In this model, clients can send requests to a ...

Problem definition: The rapid expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs) is one of the most significant changes to electricity systems around the world. Examples of DERs include solar panels, electric storage, thermal storage, and combined heat and ...

Ongoing global decarbonization and energy transition have led to significant changes in the traditional power grid, resulting in new challenges for grid operators. These challenges, which are exacerbated by the increased penetration of distributed ...

Integrating renewable generation into the existing electricity grid to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions involves several challenges. These include, e.g., volatile generation and demand, and can be overcome by increasing flexibility in the grid. ...

Designing future energy systems with high penetrations of variable renewable energy and third-party owned devices requires information with high spatial and temporal granularity. Existing public datasets focus on specific resource classes (ex. bulk ...

In this paper, we put forward a novel DER aggregation framework, encompassing a multiagent architecture and various types of mechanisms for the effective management and efficient integration of DERs in the Grid. One critical component of our architecture ...

Consumer battery installations are isolated, physical devices that are unable to participate in today's energy markets or other grid services outside what their vendor provides. Our recent work [5] describes a software system that manages multiple, ...

The rapid growth of the behind-the-meter (BTM) distributed generation has led to initiatives to reform the net energy metering (NEM) policies to address pressing concerns of rising electricity bills, fairness of cost allocation, and the long-term growth ...

Distributed Energy Resources Connect (DERConnect) is a National Science Foundation user facility to facilitate testing of distributed communication and controls algorithms at scale. DERConnect caters to industry and academic users in the electric power ...

Owing to their stochastic nature, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are more suited to participate in short-term or intraday electricity markets. The trading horizon of these markets is shorter than day-ahead markets but longer than flex/regulation ...

The violation of information privacy in Smart Grids can be a significant barrier to customers' participation. Employing privacy protection models such as K-anonymity in a Smart Grid implementation adds desirable privacy guarantees. This work provides an ...

As deep reinforcement learning (DRL) continues to gain interest in the smart building research community, there is a transition from simulation-based evaluations to deploying DRL control strategies in actual buildings. While the efficacy of a solution ...

The rapid rise of distributed energy resources (DER) has shifted passive electricity consumers to an active prosumer role. However, uncoordinated DER may result in network problems. This demo presents a Raspberry Pi-based hardware prototype that ...

There is growing interest in city and community scale energy efficiency goals across the US and around the world [1]. Forward thinking developers are expressing interest in developing methods to track the actual operations of new urban developments and ...

Power system1 state estimation plays an important role in monitoring transmission systems. With the emergence of smart grid concept, it will be necessary to extend state estimation function to distribution level to ensure the efficient integration of ...

It has been recently proposed that the reactive power injection of distributed energy resources (DERs) can be used to regulate the voltage across the power distribution network, and simple distributed control laws have been recently developed in the ...

In this paper we present an approach for the integration of cybersecurity tools from multiple domains into an overall risk assessment framework which takes the complex interactions between domains in smart grid systems into account. The approach is ...

This paper proposes a Distributed Energy Resources Services Platform as an electric grid Business Model Innovation Framework (BMIF) for coordination of distributed energy resources and renewable energy integration. The platform is based on a ...

This paper provides an overview of the potential impacts that electronic-coupled generators, such as those used on distributed generation (DG), will have on the electric grid. First, it will provide a description of how Southern California Edison (SCE) ...

Given the significant concerns regarding carbon emission from the fossil fuels, global warming and energy crisis, the renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) are going to be integrated in the smart grid. This grid can spread the intelligence of ...