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Illinois Regional Smart Grid Demonstration
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Project Objectives
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Argonne
National Laboratory (Argonne), State of Illinois (State), PowerWorld Corporation (PowerWorld), West
Monroe Partners (WMP), and Village of Oak Park (Oak Park), in collaboration with the Galvin
Electricity Initiative (GEI), and other key partners (Illinois team) are leading an effort to develop and
validate innovative smart grid technologies, and demonstrate smart grid applications, community outreach,
and renewed policies for better serving the consumers. The demonstration will assist utilities and
companies implementing new smart grid technologies, and consumers with the integration of home
automation technology in order to leverage smart meters. The results will be replicable to communities
and campus-type settings across the nation.
Project Scope
• The scope of the IIT Perfect Power System (IPPS) project includes 1) Energy management and
building efficiency Initiative; 2) Key subsystem re-commissioning; 3) Expanding master controller
capability and functionality; 4) Integrating advanced cyber security features into all Perfect Power
devices; 5) Expanding backup generation capacity to provide for local power redundancy, automated
start, and faster response times; 6) Expanding solar system and electricity storage capacity; 7)
3Developing Perfect Power small scale model; and 8) Perfect power education, training, and
workshops.
• The scope of the IIT Smart Grid Demonstration Center (ISCDC) includes building a dedicated
technology development, demonstration and evaluation facility that is integrated with an existing
smart microgrid allowing the many researchers and engineers to test smart grid technologies in a “real
world” environment, as well as evaluate the Smart Grid system as a whole.
• The ISGVF at UIUC will focus on providing convincing evidence that a smart grid design or
configuration, when deployed, will perform satisfactorily under real use scenarios and in the face of
accidental failures and cyber attacks. It will be available to smart grid industrial participants, such as
electric utilities, equipment suppliers, and system integrators. While there exist many standardized
methods for testing both cyber and power equipment, currently there are no standard methods, tools,
or facilities to undertake a more comprehensive validation of an interconnected and interdependent
system composed of both kinds of equipment. In practice, a smart grid technology today is typically
deemed mature when enough utilities deploy the technology on a trial basis, report success, and
migrate it to actual operations. However, this approach is not only quite expensive, due to sunk costs
when a trial deployment fails, but also not foolproof, because a failed trial does not necessarily mean
failed technology, and a “successful” demonstration does not necessarily mean that the technology
will function as expected under all likely circumstances. The purpose of the Validation Facility is to
demonstrate that smart grid technology can be validated, at least to a large extent, within a laboratory
setting, leading to a more rapid implementation of the Smart Grid.
• The scope of OPVM implementation project includes 1) Program Management; 2) Community and
Local Government Outreach; 3) Develop Village Aggregation and Financing Programs; 4) Develop
Local Energy Manager; and 5) Develop Village Energy Manager.