- By:
- Sundararajan, Aditya ; Liu, Guodong ; Starke, Michael R; Krishna Moorthy, Radha Sree ; Irwin, Christopher
- Page Number:
- 1-5
- Book Title:
- 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
- Publication Date:
- March 12, 2026
- Publisher Location:
- IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
- Conference Name:
- 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
- Conference Location:
- Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Conference Sponsor:
- IEEE
- View DOI Listing:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM51994.2024.10688903
Abstract
Microgrid deployments increasingly favor the potential to form networks for greater benefits to resilience, reliability, and energy sovereignty. Both independent and networked micro-grids predominantly have a single-entity-ownership and control, where the associations from ownership to data requirements to control functions to microgrid objectives is linear. The emerging model, however, is cyclical, with bidirectional causal impacts between each of the 4 pillars: there are more complex mixed ownership models across the physical, electrical, data, communications, protection, and control boundaries that impact the data requirements for meeting control functions that help realize the use-cases or objectives. This paper is the first to delineate the pillars for effective ownership and controllability of both independent as well as networked microgrids through the cyclical model, and present barriers to the adoption of such a model.
