TY - CPAPER KW - Microgrids KW - Electric power generation KW - Dispersed electricity sources KW - Distribution networks KW - Distribution utility KW - Engineering KW - Loads KW - Low-voltage distribution system KW - Power system KW - Power systems KW - Research KW - Semi-autonomous neighborhood KW - Storage systems AU - Chris Marnay AU - F. F Javier Rubio AU - Afzal S Siddiqui AB -

The existence of a significant amount of electricity sources dispersed throughout the low-voltage distribution system could create a power system quite different to the one we are familiar with and creating it offers significant research and engineering challenges. Moreover, the electrical and economic relationships between customers and the distribution utility and among customers may take forms quite distinct from those we know today. For example, rather than devices being individually interconnected in parallel with the grid, they may be grouped with loads in a semi-autonomous neighborhood that could be termed a microgrid, a cluster of small (by the standards of current power systems, e.g. < 500 kW) sources, storage systems, and loads which presents itself to the grid as a legitimate single entity.

AN - 7016975 BT - Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001, January 28-February 1, 2001 CY - Columbus, OH DO - 10.1109/PESW.2001.917022 J2 - Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001. IEEE LA - eng N1 -

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The existence of a significant amount of electricity sources dispersed throughout the low-voltage distribution system could create a power system quite different to the one we are familiar with and creating it offers significant research and engineering challenges. Moreover, the electrical and economic relationships between customers and the distribution utility and among customers may take forms quite distinct from those we know today. For example, rather than devices being individually interconnected in parallel with the grid, they may be grouped with loads in a semi-autonomous neighborhood that could be termed a microgrid, a cluster of small (by the standards of current power systems, e.g. < 500 kW) sources, storage systems, and loads which presents itself to the grid as a legitimate single entity.

PB - Practical PP - Columbus, OH PY - 2001 SN - 0-7803-6672-7 SP - 150 EP - 153 vol.1 T2 - Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001, January 28-February 1, 2001 T3 - Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001, January 28-February 1, 2001 TI - Shape of the Microgrid VL - 1 ER -