RD³ Overview

Monitoring & Load Management

Fault detection/localization/prediction and power quality monitoring with integration of communication/analysis/control techniques  

Monitoring and control of industrial/commercial/residential loads for demand-side management 

This Program Area aims at enabling the distribution system to provide timely fault detection and response, economic dispatch of all available assets, and transparency of market and pricing operations in electricity delivery for customer choice. The scope encompasses integration of sensing, communications, information analysis, and control technologies for distribution fault detection/protection/control and for peak load reduction. 

Activities supported by the Electric Distribution Program and its collaborating partners include the following:

   Current Projects

Grid Friendly Appliances™ (GFA) Controller Development
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 

Advanced Communication and Control of Distributed Energy Resources
Detroit Edison 

Cooperative Research and Development for Advanced Applications
AREVA T&D Corporation 

Cable Diagnostic Focused Initiative
National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC) 

The Connecticut Power Technologies Project
Nxegen, Inc. 

Aggregating Distributed Generators
Electrotek/NYSERDA

Cooperative Research and Development for Advanced Communication and Control
EnergyWorks North America, LLC

Distributed Energy Neural Network Integration System (DENNIS)
Orion Engineering Corp.

Enterprise-Wide Distributed Generation Energy Management System
RealEnergy, Inc. 

UAI Outage Management System Deployment
Utility Automation Integrators, Inc. 

Cooperative Research and Development for Advanced Communication and Control
Connected Energy Corp. 

Distributed Intelligent Agents for Decision Making at Local DER Levels
Alternative Energy Systems Consulting, Inc./SBIR 

Distributed Intelligent Agents for Decision Making at Local Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Levels
Infotility, Inc./SBIR