Clean Energy Capability Portfolio | Grid Transformation |
Microgrid Modelling and Simulation
The expertise to assess the development of microgrids across a range of timescales , from the long-term , lifetime cost of energy , to the short intervals required for protection and control systems , where events can occur – and need to be acted on – within milliseconds . |
Competitive Advantage • A real-time simulation suite capable of modelling and simulating microgrid systems with the immediacy required to perform protection studies , as well as identify potential oscillatory behaviour between fast inverter control systems
• At the forefront of research in the development of microgrids using a wide range of inverter control systems , conventional rotational generation , and energy storage
• Various modelling capabilities , including conventional RMS , EMTP and transient system modelling
• The most powerful digital simulation laboratory in Australia – UNSW ’ s 18-rack real-time simulator is capable of modelling large , and small-scale microgrids , at the finest timescales required for protection and high-speed control systems
Impact • Ability to assess microgrid system behaviour in realtime
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Capabilities and Facilities • A leading inverter and microgrid test platform
• An 18-rack RTDS real-time simulator
• OPAL-RT real-time simulator
Our Collaborators • A . W . Tyree Foundation
• Australian Research Council ( ARC )
• Australian Energy Market Operator ( AEMO )
• Australian Renewable Energy Agency ( ARENA )
• Empower Energy
• Sungrow
More Information Professor John Fletcher
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
T : + 61 2 9385 6007
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• Reducing the uncertainty and risk in projects through digital simulation |
E : john . fletcher @ unsw . edu . au |
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Successful Applications |
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• The Asian Development Bank conducted a project for LECO , the electrical distribution operator in Colombo , Sri Lanka , using UNSW ’ s microgrid simulation and modelling techniques |
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