Leading the Charge: Microgrids for Domestic Military Installations

Broekhoven, S. Van; Judson, Nicholas; Galvin, James E.; Marqusee, Jeffrey

doi:10.1109/mpe.2013.2258280

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“…Of those three, the DoD prioritizes increased energy security to ensure the mission readiness of the armed forces [20]. Historically, DoD installations have relied on dedicated emergency diesel generators (EDGs) in a variety of configurations [21] to provide backup power to critical loads [22,23]; however, these architectures are typically not well integrated with internal resources or the utility grid [22,24]. Consequently, the installations are left vulnerable during extended power outages or periods of high stress on the larger transmission and distribution system [22,25,26].…”

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“…Historically, DoD installations have relied on dedicated emergency diesel generators (EDGs) in a variety of configurations [21] to provide backup power to critical loads [22,23]; however, these architectures are typically not well integrated with internal resources or the utility grid [22,24]. Consequently, the installations are left vulnerable during extended power outages or periods of high stress on the larger transmission and distribution system [22,25,26]. Microgrids provide an electrical infrastructure that combines multiple forms of DERs and are better suited to withstand and recover from energy disruptions [22,24,27].…”

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Energy Resilience Impact of Supply Chain Network Disruption to Military Microgrids

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The ability to provide uninterrupted power to military installations is paramount in executing a country’s national defense strategy. Microgrid architectures increase installation energy resilience through redundant local generation sources and the capability for grid independence. However, deliberate attacks from near-peer competitors can disrupt the associated supply chain network, thereby affecting mission critical loads. Utilizing an integrated discrete-time Markov chain and dynamic Bayesian network approach, we investigate disruption propagation throughout a supply chain network and quantify its mission impact on an islanded microgrid. We propose a novel methodology and an associated metric we term “energy resilience impact” to identify and address supply chain disruption risks to energy security. The proposed methodology addresses a gap in the literature and practice where it is assumed supply chains will not be disrupted during incidents involving microgrids. A case study of a fictional military installation is presented to demonstrate how installation energy managers can adopt this methodology for the design and improvement of military microgrids. The fictional case study shows how supply chain disruptions can impact the ability of a microgrid to successfully supply electricity to critical loads throughout an islanding event.

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Energy Resilience Impact of Supply Chain Network Disruption to Military Microgrids

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“…Control and functionality research pay more attention to the control requirements and strategies to balance the demand and production and to optimize the profits [15][16][17][18][19]. In addition, DES technology is mainly applied in institutions [20,21], residential neighbourhoods [22,23], military energy support [24,25] and rural energy support [26][27][28]. In different scenarios, DES is determined by different demands and a lot of research has been carried out for each specific application.…”

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Towards a sustainable distributed energy system in China: decision-making for strategies and policy implications

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Background: The conflict between the Chinese fossil fuel-based economy and worsening environmental conditions requires further research to be carried out. Due to their clean, highly-efficient and flexible properties, distributed energy systems (DESs) have become a global research focus in the field of energy conservation. China, as the largest coal-fired energy user and highest power consumer in the world, has to conduct further research and apply the DESs to resolve the conflict. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of DES development in China as well as improvement suggestions for the development of DESs by use of scientific analysis. Methods: The analysis of strengths-weaknesses-opportunities threats (SWOT) was adapted for the analysis of improvement strategies. The directions for how to improve the application of these strategies were selected by the prioritization method of analytic hierarchy processes (AHP) and evaluated by the best-worst method (BWM). The suggestions were provided according to the ranks figured out by AHP and BWM. Five enablers were selected from the respective economic, environmental, technological and social aspects for participating in this analysis. Results: Resulting from the SWOT analysis, capital investment, technology development and regulation completeness are three aspects of strategies summarized as SO strategies, ST strategies, WO strategies and WT strategies. The research perspectives of DESs that are suggested for investment, technology development and regulation completeness are illustrated by AHP and BWM. The results show that the reduction of solid particle emissions, the improvement of generation reliability, the improvement of the production rate, the reduction of production costs, the improvement of on-site safety, the fulfilment of electricity demand, the reduction of noxious gas emissions as well as the improvement of energy efficiency need to be carried out for the sake of environmental protection and quality of DES generation in China.Conclusions: There are high potentials for China to further develop and apply DES approaches. The direction of current development might be set to solve three problematic aspects, which are capital investment, technology development and regulation completeness.

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“…One way to address this vulnerability is through microgrids -smaller, local, power grids that can function in concert with, or isolated from, commercial power grids [19]. Because they can operate independently of commercial grids they can provide electricity when commercial grids are down [2], [19], [25]. They provide capability for operational management of the local grid that can lower costs [19].…”

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“…These benefits come at a cost, however, because microgrids rely on computerized control systems to govern their activity, and these control systems introduce the potential vulnerability to cyber threats [2]. Control systems, or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, have the capability to adjust the energy system [5], [16].…”

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Investing in Cyber Defense: A Value-Focused Analysis of Investment Decisions for Microgrids

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Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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To mitigate disruptions to commercial power grids, and to achieve operational efficiencies by managing energy use, many organizations are fielding smaller, local, self-contained microgrids. The computer control systems that operate the microgrids create new vulnerabilities to a rapidly-escalating array of cyber attacks. This creates a tension between the need to improve energy assurance and efficiency through microgrids, and the need to protect against cyber attacks that can disrupt and damage the organization's energy systems. Through a series of interviews with subject matter experts and end-users, this exploratory study surfaces the decision-makers' important values in this decision space and develops a network of those values to guide decision-makers to make better decisions in balancing these competing needs.

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Leading the Charge: Microgrids for Domestic Military Installations

Cited by 24 publications

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Energy Resilience Impact of Supply Chain Network Disruption to Military Microgrids

Energy Resilience Impact of Supply Chain Network Disruption to Military Microgrids

Towards a sustainable distributed energy system in China: decision-making for strategies and policy implications

Investing in Cyber Defense: A Value-Focused Analysis of Investment Decisions for Microgrids

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