Monash Smart Energy City: Creating Grid Interactive Precincts
ARENA Insights Forum
25th June 2019
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• Annual electricity consumption close to 100 GWh
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Net Zero Emissions - Implementation Plan
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
CAMPUS
ELECTRIFICATION
ON-SITE
RENEWABLES
Reduce energy
Consumption
Lighting
Façade
Appliances
Thermal Plant
Bldg Optimisation
OFF-SITERENEWABLES
Electricity becomes
our total energy
Consumption
Heat pumps
replace gas boilers
Thermal Precincts
Power Purchase
Agreement
NET ZERO READY
BUILDINGS
Net zero ready
buildings
All electric
High performance
building envelope
Maximise on-site
solar generation
Rooftop solar PV
Solar thermal
Purchase off-site
renewable energy
INTELLIGENT
ENERGY NETWORK
Controls
Micro-grid
Battery Storage
OFFSETRESIDUALEMISSIONS
Offset residual
Emissions
Green Power
Carbon offsets
The Monash Microgrid: creating grid-interactive precincts
Microgrid
Electricity
Market
Operator
Microgrid Phase 1
• Private embedded network
• ~20 Buildings with diverse
energy load profiles
Commercial
Offices
Teaching
Residential Appts
Retail
Net Zero Smart Building
• 1.5 MW solar
• EV charging
• 1MWh battery
• 3.5 MW peak demand
Microgrid Design
DER Integration
Active Grid Management
Transactive Energy Management
TEMAggregate
Orchestrate
Planning
Dispatch External
Internal
DER Integration Architecture
InverterMeter
Inverter Manager
Gateway
Inverter
Inverter Manager
Inverter
Inverter Manager
Inverter Manager
Field Controller
Monash IP
Li -ion Flow
Gateway
Network controller
Gateway
Active Grid Management Architecture
DISTRIBUTED PLATFORM
IoT data is processed by AGM in
PRISM, and the set points are
sent to traditional control systems
or directly to the network assets
through AGM.
Onesait.Node#1
Evaluate KPIs
Manage and control the grid
Provide reportsVisualise real-time data and warnings
Manage warnings
Capture and Process real-time data
Transport and share real-time data
Traditional Control Systems
IoT real-time Data
Set points; Operation Instruction
Edge Sensing Devices
Microgrid Transactive Energy Management Architecture
Flexible DER Transactive Energy Management Markets
PV Controller & Inverter
Battery Controller & Inverter
Building Control System
Orchestrator
Planner
Flex DERController
Flex DERController
Flex DERController
Internal Markets
Tariff Optimisation etc
Demand Response etc
External Markets
Aggregator
Microgrid Edge Cloud Cloud
Progress to date
• Indra’s Active Grid Management System installed
and integrated
• Data being received from DER with deployed
Node#1 devices
• Use cases planned for M1:
• Remotely control voltage reference set-
point of a PV cluster inverter
• Design scenarios for the building energy
storage for demand response
• Test speed of response of sending a
control function order from the centralised
components of AGM and receiving a
feedback from one of the Node#1
connected to a solar PV system and
battery
• TEM platform preliminary design completed
• Initial evaluation using the USEF
• Resources appointed for TEM development
sprints
• Software development team
• Market rules and algorithm development
team
Lessons learned to date
Consult early and often with DNSP
The tech is ahead of internal
processes and governance
This is primarily an
IT integration problem
Building flexibility isn’t as simple as
flipping a switch
What’s coming up
• Assessment of cybersecurity
• Integration of AGM with TEM
• Integration of Node#1 with Building Control
System
• Complete integration of remaining DER
• EV charging station
• Remaining buildings and PV
• Development of building flexibility strategy
• Customer engagement
• Flexibility strategy
• Work on Alpha version of TEM to commence July
• Internal orchestration by April 2020
• Market interactive TEM by October 2020
Scott FerraroProgram Director, Net Zero InitiativeBuilding and Properties Division | Monash University
M: +614 0956 7007E: [email protected]: monash.edu/net-zero-initiative