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Microgrid Development for Military Installations

ESTCP, Installation Energy and Water Program Area

Released January 8, 2019

Closed March 7, 2019


FY 2020
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Objective

The Department of Defense Installation Energy Test Bed sought demonstration projects of innovative solutions to reduce the time and cost of designing and implementing microgrids on military installations. ESTCP funded multiple projects to demonstrate and validate technologies and solutions that expedited the design, simplified component and system integration, and accommodated expansion while considering the conditions found on military installations and the expected business and financial constraints of developing and building a microgrid.

There was a need to demonstrate technologies that would allow for cost-effective and agile development of future microgrid solutions. Technologies and approaches were needed that could allow for development of microgrid capabilities that could be cost effectively expanded, networked, or modified as requirements and opportunity arise over time. Technologies that allowed for the following capabilities were of interest:

  • The ability to network multiple microgrids. Advanced monitoring, control, and communication technologies are needed to enable the operation of multiple microgrids. Networking multiple microgrids on an installation to the grid is of interest.
  • The ability to cost-effectively implement a scalable microgrid from ground up or facilitate integration of additional critical loads, generation, and storage assets into an existing microgrid. Approaches that facilitate low-cost incremental expansion of networked distributed energy resources (DER) and critical loads over time are of interest.
  • The ability to cost-effectively exploit legacy generation assets and modify building load configuration in response to changing missions. Approaches that facilitate exploiting and or modifying legacy generation and load assets that reduce the cost of microgrid development are of interest.
  • The ability to simplify the design process. Application of standard interfaces and configurations where possible, or other approaches to streamlining design, are of interest.

Demonstrations could be conducted on military installation, but most were expected to be conducted in a hardware-in-the loop test facility and lead to follow-on field demonstrations. Testing in these facilities would allow for comprehensive and more cost-effective evaluation of proposed technologies. Information on the available test facilities was provided to those proposers for which full proposals were requested.

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3500 Defense Pentagon, RM 5C646
Washington, DC 20301-3500

Phone (571) 372-6565

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