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Local Power Distribution Manager (LPDM)

LPDM

Local Power Distribution Manager (LPDM) is a transactive energy microgrid controller implemented in the VOLTTRON distributed control platform. The system uses the price of electricity as the mechanism for conducting transactions that are used to manage energy use and to balance supply and demand. In order to allow testing and analysis of the control system, the implementation is designed to run completely as a software simulation, while allowing the inclusion of selected hardware that physically manages power. Equipment to be integrated with the microgrid controller must have an IP (Internet Protocol)-based network connection and a software “driver” must exist to translate data communications between the device and the controller. Sample hardware drivers are in a companion repository called LPDM-Drivers. VOLTTRON-specific integration code is in another companion repository called LPDM-Volttron.

lpdm's Issues

Create utility meter agent

From Christian:
Create an agent that publishes a price and consumption periodically. Make the grid controller listen to this price, and if the GC receives no price, it should assume that the grid is down, and switch over to the generator. The GC sets the price for the utility meter power at a very high level when it receives no signal, so that the GC automatically won’t use the grid as an energy source.
Read the price from a file for right now. In the future it will be a web feed.
Provides power consumption at meter (average over last 5 minutes)

Test: create scenario with a utility meter, GC and diesel generator and dummy EUD with load. Then trigger a grid outage, by either stopping the utility meter agent, or ‘telling’ it that there is a grid outage (need to come up with a mechanism), and see if the fuel level declines.

Write Dockerfile that runs this test.

Create heartbeat or @periodic event for schedules

Write utility meter that takes price and DR smap streams

Sample Gridcontroller in Volttron for Sam on smarthub

Alert -- Infinite Loop in Pygments

@anandkp92 -- hopefully you can resolve this. Thx

One of your dependencies may have a security vulnerability

@CJKohler / @StephenCzarnecki -- I am putting this in an issue because I don't know who all the contributors are. Maybe you already got this email, but here is the content -- there were several of them

	LBNL-ETA/LPDM
Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in morgan < 1.9.1 defined in package.json.package.json update suggested: morgan ~> 1.9.1.Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.	Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in morgan < 1.9.1 defined in package.json.
Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in morgan < 1.9.1 defined in package.json.
package.json update suggested: morgan ~> 1.9.1.
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.

	LBNL-ETA/LPDM
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in Jinja2 < 2.10.1 defined in requirements.txt.requirements.txt update suggested: Jinja2 ~> 2.10.1.Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.	Known high severity security vulnerability detected in Jinja2 < 2.10.1 defined in requirements.txt.
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in Jinja2 < 2.10.1 defined in requirements.txt.
requirements.txt update suggested: Jinja2 ~> 2.10.1.
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.

	LBNL-ETA/LPDM
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.5defined in requirements.txt.requirements.txt update suggested: paramiko ~> 2.1.5.Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.	Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.5defined in requirements.txt.
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.5defined in requirements.txt.
requirements.txt update suggested: paramiko ~> 2.1.5.
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.

	LBNL-ETA/LPDM
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.6defined in requirements.txt.requirements.txt update suggested: paramiko ~> 2.1.6.Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.	Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.6defined in requirements.txt.
Known high severity security vulnerability detected in paramiko >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.6defined in requirements.txt.
requirements.txt update suggested: paramiko ~> 2.1.6.
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase.

	LBNL-ETA/LPDM
Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in requests <= 2.19.1defined in requirements.txt.requirements.txt update suggested: requests ~> 2.20.0.Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase	Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in requests <= 2.19.1defined in requirements.txt.
Known moderate severity security vulnerability detected in requests <= 2.19.1defined in requirements.txt.
requirements.txt update suggested: requests ~> 2.20.0.
Always verify the validity and compatibility of suggestions with your codebase

Fixing Volttron to work with Mike's new events

Lighting logic agent

Grid Controller upgrade

Modify GC so it can take multiple power sources with each a price, capacity
enabled/disabled state is represented by the capacity, set to 0 if it is disabled.
Conceptually a utility meter is like another generator, generic powersource class
Price blending logic: start with “available” power source with lowest price, max out capacity, add next available more expensive power source, continue up until you meet the load. Need to figure out how to handle battery.
Implement both marginal and average pricing algorithm, with a parameter on the grid controller to indicate which algorithm to use for a given scenario

Create the utility meter class from the “PowerSource” baseclass

https://docs.google.com/a/lbl.gov/document/d/141om3E5fSy1yjgEWe0jHpfPxsP903EpA-zvpqBZDoIU/edit?usp=sharing