This year’s demonstration will feature a fully operating hybrid bi-directional residential microgrid, complete with appliances, HVAC, lighting, EV charging and various plug load distributions including line AC and DC, USB-C, PoE and FMP. It will also provide the excess power it generates to the adjacent Grid Edge presentation theater and other exhibitor loads on the convention center floor. Power resources for the microgrid will be a combination of solar, battery and utility energy that will be located in an area adjacent to the convention floor.
The microgrid will power both AC and DC devices and appliances in a simulated residential setting. It will also be interconnected in a simulated multi-tiered grid-of-grids network of other microgrids and the macrogrid. Various operating modes will be continuously demonstrated, including loss of utility power, loss of on-site renewable power, loss of renewable neighborhood/community energy resources, complete islanding and seamless reconnection of all these resources. Cyber-security will be accomplished via a “Zero-Trust” operating philosophy, allowing the microgrid to autonomously operate while under uncertain cybersecurity conditions.