Title: DERConnect: A testbed for connected distributed energy resources in autonomous energy systems

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 tests, social science tests, and advanced building controls. The talk will cover the motivation, the test facility, and different use cases.

Bio: Professor Kleissl researches the interaction of weather with engineering systems in solar power systems and the electric power grid. Kleissl received an undergraduate degree from the University of Stuttgart and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, both in environmental engineering with a focus in environmental fluid mechanics. He is the Director of the UC San Diego Center for Energy Research and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego.

Zoom Link: https://wse.zoom.us/j/91590008431