Overview of real-time simulation as a supporting effort to smart-grid attainment

Luis Ibarra; Antonio Rosales; Pedro Ponce; Arturo Molina; Raja Ayyanar

doi:10.3390/en10060817

Overview of real-time simulation as a supporting effort to smart-grid attainment

Luis Ibarra, Antonio Rosales, Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina, Raja Ayyanar

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The smart-grid approach undergoes many difficulties regarding the strategy that will enable its actual implementation. In this paper, an overview of real-time simulation technologies and their applicability to the smart-grid approach are presented as enabling steps toward the smart-grid's actual implementation. The objective of this work is to contribute with an introductory text for interested readers of real-time systems in the context of modern electric needs and trends. In addition, a comprehensive review of current applications of real-time simulation in electric systems is provided, together with the basis to understand real-time simulation and the topologies and hardware used to implement it. Furthermore, an overview of the evolution of real-time simulators in the industrial and academic background and its current challenges are introduced.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	817
Journal	Energies
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en10060817
State	Published - Jun 1 2017

Keywords

Electric systems
Grid modernization
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)
Power-HIL (P-HIL)
Real-time simulation
Smart-grid

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Optimization
Energy (miscellaneous)
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Fuel Technology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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