DER at the NAESB-FIX tconf yesterday

["Old, Bob" <bob.old@siemens.com>]

It sounded to me that the participants rather cavalierly narrowed the scope of their work by excluding DER support of any generation which would be greater than the participant's load. In a b2g context, I could see that this would be a very common scenario.  A college campus could easily have excess generating capacity during the summer.  And photovoltaics could easily become a popular DER which could be supplied internally to the facility or externally, through a revenue-grade meter to the grid.  I would expect even the wholesale price of green electrons to be higher than the retail price for coal powered electrons.
 
No matter what, Grid Ops needs to tell the ESI to drop any energy supplied from the building to the grid when Maintenance is working on the wires.
 
I guess DER could be considered as just another part of the Generation Domain.  But it would be good to define it all in the same place and not divide the definition based on a rather opaque, distantly related, and dynamically changing parameter like current load through the meter.
 
Does this make sense?
 
Best,
B.O.  Sept. 18, 2009
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