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Add distributed energy storage resources

Lesson 4 - Energy Storage

The goal of this lesson is to familiarize you with how to model energy storage in GridLAB-D. The specific learning objectives are the following.

1. How to connect a battery to a network.
2. How to set the size and rating of a battery.
3. How to set the control state of a battery.

Batteries

Batteries can be connected to either single phase or 3-phase nodes on a network through an inverter and a meter.

Tasks

The following tasks are illustrated in main.glm:

1. Add a medium size commercial battery with 50% SOC, discharging at 100 kW, using an inverter with 200 kW rated power (see main.glm@6)
   1. Add a meter (main.glm@7).
   2. Add an inverter (main.glm@13).
   3. Add the battery (main.glm@16).

Exercises

1. Add three household batteries to load_75, each using a 20 kW inverter, one charging at 10 kW, one idle, and one discharging at 10 kW.

More Information

• Battery

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