mBRESGRID - Development of a distributed microgrid model using battery electrical energy storage (BESS) and photovoltaic generation (RES) for peak shaving in distribution networks (GRID)

This project, led by ORMAZABAL, is a collaborative effort with the technology centers CIC energiGUNE and ORMAZABAL CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY. The project falls under the Basque Government’s “HAZITEK” program and was carried out during 2019 and 2020.

Goals:

The overall objective of the project is to research and develop an advanced microgrid with EMS for industrial use on the customer’s premises, connected to the distribution network, from electrical storage and smart photovoltaic generation technologies to automated control and management technologies (RES and Peak Shaving), to generate an economically competitive and interoperable microgrid concept.

To achieve this, ORMAZABAL will pursue the attainment of various technical objectives, such as:

• Design and development of cutting-edge post-lithium (Na) energy storage technologies with which improvements in energy density, cyclability and cost can be fundamentally validated.
• Design for an EMS a complex control algorithm that automatically manages the flow of energy to optimize the integration of storage at the local level, so that it can provide the greatest number of functionalities to the microgrid and ultimately, allow the efficient management of distributed resources and anticipate the elimination of peak demand (Peak Shaving).
• To investigate and develop an autonomous algorithm, to be integrated into the EMS, to use solar radiation prediction to calculate the expected photovoltaic energy to be generated and thus be able to plan energy management in microgrids in an advanced way
• Test the technologies developed in the project at OCT’s facilities in order to validate the functionality of advanced microgrids for the defined use cases and scenarios.

Project funded by:

mBRESGRID is a project co-financed by the Basque Government and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 (ERDF).