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

In this project led by ORMAZABAL, it has the collaboration of the technological centers CIC energiGUNE and ORMAZABAL CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY. The project is part of the Basque Government’s “HAZITEK” program and will be developed during 2019 and 2020.

Objectives:

The general objective of the project is to research and develop an advanced microgrid with EMS for industrial use at the customer’s premises, connected to the distribution grid, 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 this end, ORMAZABAL will pursue 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.
• Design a complex control algorithm for an EMS that automatically manages energy flow to optimize storage integration at a local level, so that it can provide the greatest number of functionalities to the microgrid and ultimately enable efficient management of distributed resources and predict peak demand shaving.
• Research and develop an autarkic algorithm, to be integrated into the EMS, to use solar radiation prediction to calculate the expected photovoltaic energy generation and thus allow for advanced energy management planning in microgrids.
• Test the technologies developed in the project at OCT 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-funded by the BASQUE GOVERNMENT and the EUROPEAN UNION through the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020 (ERDF). />