This news is classified in: Traditional Energy Sustainable Energy General News Smart Grids
Apr 5, 2016
DNV GL, the world's largest resource of independent energy experts and certification, together with its partners, Group NIRE and Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc.), will produce and operate an Internet of Energy (IoEn) platform integrating the management of up to 100 distributed energy resources (DER).
The award, DNV GL's third from ARPA-E, is one of twelve new projects in the Department of Energy's Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES) program announced in December.
The Internet of Energy project will be deployed at Group NIRE's utility-connected microgrid test facility in Lubbock, Texas, where it will be integrated with local utility monitoring, control and data acquisition systems to demonstrate advanced management of up to 100 disparate distributed energy resources using Geli's "Internet of Energy" software.
The Internet of Energy platform will simultaneously manage both market level regulation and distribution system support functions to facilitate large-scale integration of renewable generation onto the grid. The platform will demonstrate a novel and scalable approach for the fast registration and automated dispatch of DERs by combining DNV GL's power system simulation tools and independent third-party validation with Geli's innovative networking, control, and market balancing software.
"DNV GL's core role," said Senior Consultant Michael Kleinberg, "is to provide greater certainty to power systems planners and grid operators -- who will increasingly be called upon to manage massive volumes of distributed energy assets -- by validating operational performance and emerging economic models within a real-world, utility-connected microgrid."
"Geli is excited to showcase our software's advanced capabilities for automated markets and applications; this is in an environment where we can test fast transactions for and aggregation of many energy assets," said Ryan Wartena, co-founder and CEO of Geli. "What Geli demonstrates with DNV GL and Group NIRE will become commonplace as the energy grid networks an increasing number of distributed energy resources."
