Microgrids R&D Technology Area: Planning and Design Tools
The planning and design tools microgrids R&D (MGRD) technology area includes developing and validating microgrid design optimization tools for island/remote, singular, and multiple networked microgrids.
Activities
Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM)
The model is focused on finding optimal DER investments in buildings or multi-energy microgrids. A resilience extension of DER-CAM—Resilience Design Tool (RDT)—enables users to explore trade-offs between cost and resilience of system designs.
Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT)
Designed for use early in the design process, MDT applies powerful search algorithms to identify and characterize design options such as cost, performance, and reliability. The tool can also optimize topology, generation, and asset sizes over multiple measures of performance.
Resilient Operation of Networked Microgrids (RONM)
Resilient Operation of Networked Microgrids (RONM) helps plan how microgrids can support rapid recovery during extreme events, and was developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. RONM supports defining resilience goals and threats, evaluates candidate microgrid designs within distribution infrastructures, and supports simulation testing for recovery scenarios supported by networked coordination of microgrids. Learn more about RONM below:
- Review the tool in open source.
- View additional documentation.
- Experience the tool in its deployment on www.omf.coop.
Learn more about the MGRD Portfolio of Activities.