Microgrid Modelling and Simulation

The expertise to assess the development of microgrids across a range of timescales from the long-term, lifetime cost of energy down to the short intervals required for protection and control systems, where events can occur—and need to be acted on—within milliseconds.

Competitive advantage

  • At the forefront of research into, and the development of, microgrids using a wide-range of inverter control systems, conventional rotational generation, and energy storage
  • A wide array of modelling capabilities, including conventional RMS, EMTP and transient system modelling
  • The most powerful digital simulation laboratory in Australia. UNSW’s 18-rack real-time simulator is capable of modelling large- and small-scale microgrids at the finest timescales required for protection and high-speed control systems

Impact

  • The ability to assess microgrid system behaviour in real time
  • Reducing the uncertainty and risk in projects through digital simulation

Successful outcomes

  • When the Asian Development Bank conducted a project for LECO, the electrical distribution operator in Colombo, Sri Lanka, it used UNSW microgrid simulation and modelling techniques.

Capabilities and facilities

  • A state-of-the-art inverter and microgrid test platform
  • An 18-rack RTDS real-time simulator
  • An OPAL-RT system for high-speed power electronics simulation in real time

Our partners

  • ARENA
  • Electranet
  • Tasnetworks
  • AEMO
  • Empower
  • Sungrow
Tags
lensDecarbonising the Grid with Renewables
lensClean Energy