Doosan GridTech and Austin Energy win Grid Edge Innovation Award for Austin SHINES solar + storage project.
Doosan GridTech, the leader in utility-integrated energy storage
solutions, recognized with Austin Energy for designing an integrated
solar plus storage solution that other utilities can
replicate.
Doosan GridTech® and Austin Energy were presented with a Grid Edge
Innovation Award for their design of the Austin SHINES project at
Greentech Media’s Grid Edge Innovation Summit today. This honor
recognizes their advancements in deploying a progressive distributed
energy resource management system (DERMS) that will help the Texas
utility as well as its customers benefit from a variety of field test
DER applications. The award is one of only ten given by Greentech Media
to top companies and projects that are driving change in the electricity
system.
Over the coming months, Austin Energy and Doosan will test and optimize
the effectiveness of Doosan GridTech’s DERMS software -- Distributed
Energy Resource Optimizer (DERO®). A variety of distributed energy
resources (DER) will connect to this platform, including: two
utility-scale storage systems, rooftop and commercial solar
installations, customer-owned storage systems, smart inverters, and a
variety of other analytical tools. The goal is to learn how to maximize
the value of integrating distributed energy resources and enable higher
penetrations of solar onto the distribution grid. This will inform best
practices for utilities when integrating renewable energy and energy
storage on the grid at utility, commercial, and residential scales. This
solution could also help the utility to better manage energy loads,
improve grid reliability and prepare the city of Austin for its
utility’s goal of reaching 65 percent renewable energy generation by the
year 2027.
“We are thrilled to be a recipient of this innovation award,” said
Debbie Kimberly, Vice President of Customer Energy Solutions and
Corporate Communications, Austin Energy. “The amount of collaboration
being done with our partners to integrate innovative solutions like
Austin SHINES has been very encouraging. This project is paving the way
to a more renewable future and providing more value to the community.”
For Austin SHINES, DERs participate in five value-creating use cases
through DERO. Three are economic in nature – energy arbitrage, real time
price dispatch, and peak load reduction. Two are reliability based –
voltage support and congestion management. DERO works to optimize the
DER participation across multiple time horizons (e.g., hour-ahead,
day-ahead) and changing system conditions (e.g., changing solar
production). Schedules are sent to DERs to deliver on the highest value
use cases every five minutes. Although the DERs are not actively
bidding, DERO can optimize to find the lowest cost dispatch of DERs
based on system parameters. DER communication and control take place
through open standards based interfaces, improving interoperability
across assets and allowing for easy expansion of the fleet in the future.
The Austin SHINES project is funded by the US Department of Energy’s
Solar Energy Technologies Office under its Sustainable
and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV program, the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and Austin Energy.
“We are humbled by the recognition, and appreciate the strong
partnership with Austin Energy and the funding from DOE to realize this
vision,” said Daejin Choi, CEO, Doosan GridTech. “We see utilities as
key to realizing the potential of DERs to reduce carbon emissions,
maximize the value to serve load, and improve the reliability of the
distribution grid. Through this work, we are creating a framework for
designing the right combination of hardware with software controls for
any utility grappling with the challenge and opportunity of DERs.”
With this recognition, Doosan is the recipient of two Grid Edge awards
in three years. Its first award in 2016 was for the firm’s contribution
to the advancement of the energy system through the inaugural deployment
of its open standards, two-tiered software platform as an energy storage
fleet manager for Snohomish County PUD.
About Austin Energy
Austin Energy, the City of Austin’s electric utility, serves more than
475,000 customer accounts and more than one million residents in Greater
Austin. The utility’s mission — to safely deliver clean, affordable,
reliable energy and excellent customer service — has guided Austin
Energy in powering the community and supporting the region’s growth
since 1895. As a publicly owned utility, Austin Energy contributes more
than $109 million annually to support important City services such as
streetlights, parks, libraries and public safety. For more information
about Austin Energy, visit austinenergy.com.
About Doosan GridTech®
Doosan GridTech is a global software and solutions provider that helps
electric utilities and other megawatt scale power producers to evaluate,
procure, integrate and optimize energy storage and other distributed
energy resources. The Seattle-based company has managed nearly 85 MW of
multiple energy storage and distributed resource integration projects on
open standards software platforms across the country and in Southeast
Asia. It is ranked as one of the top energy storage solution providers
by Navigant Research and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Its parent
company, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd, is headquartered
in South Korea and is a multinational conglomerate with an emphasis on
industrial and infrastructure products and services. www.doosangridtech.com
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