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DOE OSTI2018

Enabling an Interactive Grid: A Strategic Vision for Interoperability

This whitepaper proposes that ecosystems of organizations integrating smart technology use such a vision to align their directions and transcend immediate challenge. It then offers a framework for developing a stakeholder roadmap for these integration ecosystems to achieve their vision, including tools to measure the state of interoperability, and a process to identify gaps and prioritize technologies, policies, and timelines.

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DOE OSTI2018

Enabling an Interactive Grid: A Strategic Vision for Interoperability

This whitepaper proposes that ecosystems of organizations integrating smart technology use such a vision to align their directions and transcend immediate challenge. It then offers a framework for developing a stakeholder roadmap for these integration ecosystems to achieve their vision, including tools to measure the state of interoperability, and a process to identify gaps and prioritize technologies, policies, and timelines.

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DOE OSTI2022

Electric Access System Enhancement (EASE): Assessment of a Distributed Energy Resource Management System for Enabling Dynamic Hosting Capacity

The Electric Access System Enhancement (EASE) project demonstrated a scalable, interoperable, and cost-effective means of integrating high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). The control architecture developed leveraged a Distributed Energy Resource Management System, Distribution System Operator for transacting energy, and 3rd Party DER Aggregator platform. The project identified ways to enhance the customer interconnection process to the grid and improve access to information from DERs and optimize the usage of DERs to provide energy services in a simulated day-ahead shadow market while maintain grid reliability. By integrating these capabilities into a scalable system of systems, the DSO can effectively balance DER generation and customer demand on the distribution network. This capability allows the grid to host more DER than traditionally possible on wires alone. Hosting more DER has the added benefit of supplying increased demand growth, sometimes beyond the capacity limits of the distribution network itself. This is known as a dynamic hosting capacity, which could help utilities manage the forecasted growth in electricity demand as California switch to electric vehicles and appliances. This could help to establish energy storage and PV generation as a “pseudo firm” generation resource mix if managed appropriately and provide sufficient resource adequacy for distribution capacity upgrade deferrals.

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DOE OSTI2019

The Plug-and-Play Electricity Era: Interoperability to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

The advent of the information age continues to transform the mechanics of integrating electric power devices and systems from coordinated operations based purely on the physics of electric power engineering to an increasing blend of power with information and communications technology engineering. Integrating electric system components is not just about attaching electric power wires but requires the connection of computer-based automation systems and their associated sensing and communications equipment. The architectural impacts are significant. Well-considered and commonly held concepts, principles, and organizational structures have been emerging to address the complexity of the integrated operational challenges that drives our society to expect more flexibility in configuring the electric power system, while simultaneously achieving greater efficiency, reliability, and resilience. Architectural concepts such as modularity and composability contribute to forming structures that enable the connection of power system equipment characterized by clearly-defined interfaces that consist of physical connections and cyber connections. Overall, the result of successful integration of the components of the electric power system is interoperation; the discipline that drives the integration to be simple and reliable is the topic of interoperability.

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DOE OSTI2022

Application of DLT cybersecurity stack to TES applications for a scalable, cybersecure, and interoperable future

Transactive Energy Systems (TES) are expected to improve upon existing grid operations and capabilities by enabling the integration of traditional grid resources with distributed energy resources (DER). Distributed Ledger Technology or DLT (e.g., blockchain) presents itself as a viable instrument to support decentralized, autonomous, and tamper-evident applications, which can be leveraged within TES's ecosystem. DLTs can provide pertinent security controls including access controls, data immutability, and traceability in addition to other well-known advantages such as decentralization and scalability. This work demonstrates the DLT Cybersecurity stack and its applicability to TES-based use-cases/applications. The seven-layer DLT cybersecurity stack is a DLT-agnostic framework that can quickly be used to classify and group the individual needs of an application into the different processing and cybersecurity layers offered by a DLT using a common taxonomy and an architectural mapping framework. This enables application engineers to demystify and strengthen the overall security aspects of their systems while maintaining an open perspective towards features and drawbacks that may hinder their performance in real-world scenarios. The paper leverages the work performed by the IEEE P2418.5 - Blockchain for Energy Standards working group.

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DOE OSTI2025

Virtual Power Plants: Pilots, Challenges, and Innovations Shaping Future Development

Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) to provide grid services traditionally delivered by centralized power plants. This article reviews the current state of VPP deployment, highlighting business models, compensation mechanisms, and global pilot projects. While VPPs offer benefits such as grid flexibility, resilience, and cost savings, challenges remain in communication infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, market access, and customer engagement. To address these, we propose a scalable, privacy-preserving hierarchical VPP architecture that coordinates with distribution utilities and preserves customer data. We also present the Integrated T&D Control Room of the Future as a key test bed for validating and accelerating VPP adoption. These innovations can help transition VPPs from pilot programs to integral components of a modern, reliable power grid.

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