Development of distributed grid intelligence platform for solid state transformer

Abstract

This paper introduces the development of a platform intended as a distributed controller for grid intelligence (DGI) system at FREEDM Systems Center. This platform serves as both a hard real-time local converter controller and a communication node for distributed deployment of energy management schemes. One of the converter devices it controls is the solid state transformer (SST), one of the key elements to interface renewable energy sources into distribution system in FREEDM Center. Both the hardware design and software structure for SST control are presented in this paper. For the communication part, the Distributed Network Protocol (DNP) 3.0 is adopted to congregate multiple SSTs to balance local generation and demands in a coordinated manner. Experiment results are presented to show that this distributed platform has good performance.