The GRIDS project is focused on techniques to increase grid reliability and resilience by improving interoperability between transmission and distribution, and standardizing data exchanges with devices connected to the grid edge, from smart inverters to the largest data centers.
The overarching objective of GRIDS Phase 3 is to develop techniques to increase grid reliability and resilience by improving interoperability between transmission and distribution, and standardizing data exchanges with devices connected to the grid edge, from smart inverters to the largest data centers. The project has two efforts: Grid Information Orchestration Navigator (Grid-ION) and Large Flexible Loads Economic Analysis.
Grid Information Orchestration Navigator (Grid-ION) is an application aimed at resolving the knowledge fragmentation problem experienced by electric utilities in designing and rolling out customer program specifications starting from the business-level coordination logic down to identifying the data exchange requirements and formats compliant with the IEC Common Information Model (CIM) for implementing the coordination architectures.
Large Flexible Loads Economic Analysis delivers two applications with guided workflows that provide utilities and other large flexible load customers with the technical, process-related, and financial considerations to leverage flexibility schemes and participate in wholesale energy markets.