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For more than three decades, ARC has been recognized globally for our detailed market analysis and unrivaled accuracy. ARC analysts monitor the key technologies, vertical industries, and regional trends impacting the global business environment on an ongoing basis. A case in point is the market for Microgrid Automation Systems.
Microgrid Automation
A microgrid is a self-contained electrical network that allows users to generate their own electricity on-site and use it when needed it most. A microgrid is a type of distributed energy resource, that can be operated while connected to the utility grid or in disconnected “island” mode.
For electricity generation, microgrids typically use some combination of back-up diesel generators and renewables, such as solar panels. Microgrids can incorporate battery systems to store electricity and deploy it during outages or when grid demand spikes. Intelligent software controls can automatically switch the facility between the utility grid and the microgrid based on factors such as power reliability and cost efficiency.
Microgrid automation is a subset of all grid automation, and it's probably about 15% the size of the entire grid. The hardware for microgrids includes inverters, rectifier battery chargers, relays, reclosers, switchgear, circuit protection, power meetings, SCADA, all the switching and communications. Microgrid automation excludes all of the generation equipment, like wind turbines, diesel generators, and solar panels. Also excluded are video surveillance, StepUp transformers, HVAC, and building automation.
ARC’s scope limits the size of the microgrid to roughly a hundred megawatts maximum, and we try to keep it up above out of the residential level. So, it's going to have to be a little over 20 kilowatts in size at the lower end, but we try to capture all the commercial and even pretty good size microgrids. A larger microgrid might be a college campus university, for example.
Microgrid Automation Suppliers
Many suppliers are coming into the electrical switch gear, recloser, and protection area, and this includes suppliers like SEL, Siemens, GE, and Schneider Electric that are providing that physical equipment.
There is another level of protection, which is the primary control relay safety relays, as well as a secondary level of local management and control of all the distributed energy storage and loads. And finally, there could be a tertiary level, which is kind of the remote connection to the grid, the controls, the optimization, load forecasting.
In this video, ARC’s Business Development Manager, Lucas Martin, interviews Rick Rys, Senior Consultant and Author responsible for the Microgrid Automation Systems Market Update.
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There is a Microgrid Automation System Selection Guide that is designed to help industrial manufacturers select the best Microgrid Automation System and supplier for their organization’s unique business requirements.