New Paradigms at the grid edge
- Utilities are accustomed to decide about generation and placement of energy resources. Today it is customer together with third parties that decides about adding solar and batteries and using EV. However, utilities need visibility into all of these vastly distributed customers located resources. Creating such a visibility is a challenge that can be solved with a mixed approach of central-edge decision making process.
- The idea would be discouraging EV owners from charging when demand in high, or, they even can inform system about for how long they need to use their EV and when they need it. Each place or region or community should think about how to design the right structure to motivate and supervise right customer behavior.
- Most of the microgrid or a local grid control strategy are based on old protection and control paradigms and keeping the network balanced, mostly on MV level. Now it’s time for to make some decisions at the edge, at both MV and LV levels, in coordination and supervision with main grid control center.
- More information at: https://www.psigridconnect.com/en/ingo/intelligent-grid-operatior/
