Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Research to Increase Renewable Energy Contribution in an Arctic
Abstract
Publicly Releasable Abstract363 [Carlin, Richard], N00014The Kotzebue Electric Association (KEA) is the electric utility serving the, remote Arctic community of Kotzebue, Alaska. KEA has been a trailblazer in the integration of variable renewable energy technologie,s into a remote islanded microgrid. KEA and the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP), an applied energy research institute at t,he University of Alaska Fairbanks, have been collaborating for over a decade on energy research projects aimed at reducing diesel co,nsumption for power generation and space heating. Both ACEP and KEA would like to formalize this mutually beneficial partnership by,establishing Kotzebue as a Community Energy Innovation Hub, which entails building an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system,within the community that would serve as an operational, educational, and research platform. The Kotzebue Microgrid AMI system would, upgrade the whole of the Kotzebue microgrid metering infrastructure to allow for advanced metering of energy generation, transmissi,on, and loads within the community, both residential and commercial.Installing the Kotzebue Microgrid AMI system and establishing Ko,tzebue as a Community Energy Innovation Hub supports the Navys Blue Arctic objective of strengthening cooperative partnerships and,seamlessly integrates with the existing Alaska Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization (ARCTIC) progr,am, which is supported by the Office of Naval Research (Award Number: N00014-19-1-2235; Principal Investigator: Gwen Holdmann). The,proposed Kotzebue Microgrid AMI system lays the foundation for research that addresses the overarching ARCTIC goals and objectives b,y establishing Kotzebue as a testbed for energy research on the stability, resiliency, and efficiency of,enetration power system in an Arctic climate. The Kotzebue Microgrid AMI system would facilitate research and educational opportunit,ies in the areas ofsolar forecasting, demand response, electric vehicle integration, and power system stability and quality issues a,ssociated with the high penetration of inverter-based resources into microgrids. KEA members would benefit by having access to highe,r resolution electricity use data from which they can learn about their electricity consumption patterns. This higher resolution dat,a would also allow KEA to implement time-of-use rates to incentivize load shifting to further reduce diesel consumption, monitor for, adverse power quality impacts, and perform advanced diagnostics of fault events. This Defense University Research Instrumentation, and generation and transmission-side metering platforms. On the customer-side, we propose a Residential and Commercial Advanced Met,ering (RCAM) platform supplied by Eaton and based on Itron Centron II C2SXD residential metersand Honeywell Elster A3 ALPHA commerci,al meters connected via a wireless Radio-Frequency (RF) mesh network to a central server running the Operational Data Management Sys,tem (ODMS). On the generation and transmission-side, we propose a Generation and Transmission Advanced Metering (GTAM) platform base,d on the Schweitzer SEL-735 Power Quality Meter and Revenue meter. The meters and their associated satellite-synchronized clock sour,ces would be installed and integrated via ethernet communications into KEAs existing SCADA system by Electric Power Systems. Data f,rom the RCAM and GTAM platforms would be recorded on a dedicated DELL PowerEdge R540 Rack Server. The data collected from the Kotzeb,ue Microgrid AMI system would be made available to ACEP for ten calendar years.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212245
Entities
People
- Dominique Pride
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Alaska Fairbanks