Although, a variety of established tools for analysis of power systems already exists, it is in the medium term very unlikely that one of these tools alone will provide all functionalities and models that are required to simulate future Smart Grids in all its facets. This is mainly due to the high number of Smart Grid use cases, actors, and technologies to be integrated that is not known from other industries so far. Accordingly, a mixture of various different and established tools will be required. These, again, have to be composed in use cases specific to complex and system-wide scenarios. Therefore, tools such as simulation platforms and -suites are required that are additionally capable of integrating software-and hardware models and components. Therefore, the proposed approach is an integrated concept allowing for analyzing large-scale scenarios taking into consideration both, stationary and dynamic simulations in real-time.
Abstract-For robust testing of new technologies used in future, intelligent power and energy systems, realistic testing environments are needed. Due to the dimensions of a real-world environment a field-based installation is often not viable. More efficient instead of a local installation is to connect existing and highly sophisticated labs with different focus of specialization. Today's experimental setups for the Smart Grid domain are very time-consuming solutions or specific implementations for a single project. To overcome this challenge, an innovative concept for a novel approach for large-scale co-simulation across locations (different labs) is presented in this paper.
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