Preliminary design of microgrid project

What is a microgrid design guide?

This guide is meant to assist communities – from residents to energy experts to decision makers – in developing a conceptual microgrid design that meets site-specific energy resilience goals.

What is a microgrid report?

This report provides (1) an overview of the microgrid planning, assessment, and design process for DoD installations and (2) is a resource for energy managers, policymakers, contractors, and other stakeholders involved in microgrid projects.

What is a microgrid project?

The primary goal for microgrid projects is to increase the energy resilience and enhance the ability to serve an installation’s electrical loads during a contingency situation.

What is a microgrid planning capability?

Planning capability that supports the ability to model and design new microgrid protection schemes that are more robust to changing conditions such as load types, inverter-based resources, and networked microgrids.

What is a microgrid design analysis?

For a design analysis, it is useful to conduct system modeling to match microgrid loads with generation on an hourly, 15-minute, or 1-minute basis. This type of modeling can provide a detailed look into how a microgrid can supply loads from different generation sources at each time step throughout the course of a year.

What information is provided in NREL's microgrid design process?

NREL’s microgrid design process For each step in the process this report provides practical information for DoD stakeholders, including information to gather, analysis to be conducted, available tools, examples from DoD projects, and lessons learned. Specific examples of the types of information provided include: