Microgrids R&D Technology Area: DC Microgrids
With the goal of supporting a long-term lunar base, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) collaborated to develop and evaluate resilient direct current (DC) microgrids that included power electronics-based interconnections from multiple DC microgrids. SNL and NASA evaluated grid stability using control strategies that can balance load and generation in response to a variety of common scenarios that would threaten microgrid operations. The results of this research will also support the efficient operations of renewables, batteries, and networked microgrids on Earth.
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Robust Autonomous and Fault-tolerant DC Microgrid Development for Long-Term Lunar Habitation