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A Guide to Resiliency
1. What does the military mean by operational energy and energy resiliency
1. Operational energy is the “energy required for
training, moving, and sustaining military forces and
weapons platforms for military operations.” (10 US Code §
2924)
2. DoD Energy Resilience is the ability to prepare for and
recover from energy disruptions that impact mission
assurance on military installations (Presentation given by Dr. Ariel Castillo,
Senior Energy Resilience Program Manager, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy,
Installations & Environment, June 2017)
2. Microgrid Value Grows with Complexity
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Back-Up
Generation
Simple
Microgrid
Advanced
Microgrid
Reliability
Economic Value
Grid power, genset for backup, UPS,
low renewable penetration
Hybrid DER system, not
optimized, Grid services
Hybrid DER, high penetration
renewable, CHP, Seamless
Islanding, Grid Services, etc.
3. What does it mean to be energy resilient?
• Contingency handling
• Autonomous
• Self-healing
• Critical load support
• Equipment agnostic
• Optimal balancing of load vs generation assets
• Failsafe: A “do no harm” provision
• Defense-in-depth cybersecurity
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4. Renewables Linkage with storage mitigates intermittency
Source: MIT Energy Initiative, “Preparing for large-scale solar deployment”, Nancy Stauffer, December 2015
5. Distributed Control Maximizes Resiliency
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Then
Now
An effective microgrid control system must
be able to function in the face of
disruptions to connected devices, data
communications, or the control system
itself. Running control algorithms on a
single central computer is an unacceptable
single point of failure in modern system
design, yet most microgrid control systems
are stuck with this obsolete approach.
GridMaster takes a fundamentally different
and modern approach by distributing
control functions across multiple control
computers that constantly communicate
and cooperate in optimizing microgrid
performance. If one controller goes offline,
another takes up its role.
7. Cybersecurity threats cut across sectors
Source: “Cyber Threat and Vulnerability
Analysis of the U.S. Electric Sector,” Mission
Support Center, Idaho National Laboratory,
August 2016
10. How do you define Energy Resiliency for your Enterprise?
• What is the hassle cost when you lose power
• What was the direct cost of getting up and running from your last outage?
• When was the last time you had an outage of greater than one
hour?
• What is the opportunity cost or value of lost load
for an outage > 1 hour?
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11. Recent natural disasters highlight the importance of reliable, resilient energy & logistics
Irma damaged house in St. Croix Overlooking Magen's Bay
Post Maria Destruction Solar + Battery Pack is
Sole Source of Power
