UCSD

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Home
• Publications
• Group
• Teaching
• Software
• Lab

---

DERConnect -- A distributed energy resources testbed for solar power integration
J. Kleissl, A. Khurram, K. Chia, S. Brown, A. Mishra, J. Cortés, R. de Callafon, R. Gupta, S. Martínez, D. Victor
Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2022, pp. 587-589

Abstract

Distributed Energy Resources Connect (DERConnect) is a National Science Foundation user facility to facilitate testing of distributed communication and controls algorithms at scale. DERConnect caters to industry and academic users in the electric power sector. DERConnect will provide testing capabilities of 1,000s of real DERs and millions of simulated DERs. DERConnect is designed to test intelligence on the grid edge by configuring the DERs in any communication architecture such as peer-to-peer, hierarchical, and centralized. DERConnect also enables cybersecurity test, social science tests, and advanced building controls. DERConnect will open to the research community in 2025. This paper describes DERConnect use cases and instructs potential future users of when and how to engage.

pdf

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California, 92093-0411

Ph: 1-858-822-7930
Fax: 1-858-822-3107

cortes at ucsd.edu
Skype id: jorgilliyo