Resilience, efficiency, sustainability, flexibility, security, and reliability are key drivers for microgrid developments. These factors motivate the need for integrated models and tools for microgrid planning, design, and operations at higher and higher levels of complexity.
The DOE defines a microgrid as a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources (DERs) within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the power grid.
By 2035, microgrids are envisioned to be essential building blocks of the future electricity delivery system to support resilience, decarbonization, and affordability. Microgrids will be increasingly important for integration and aggregation of high penetration distributed energy resources.
In that context, the Microgrid R&D program seeks to accomplish these three goals: Goal 2: Ensure that microgrids serve as a driver of decarbonization for the US EDS by acting as a point of aggregation for larger number of DERs, with 50% of new installed DER capacity within microgrids coming from carbon-free energy sources by 2030.
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