Date & Time
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Location Name
Oceans Ballroom 3
Name
Open ADR for Load Shedding in Islanding Department of Defense Microgrids
Peter Curtiss
Description

Islanded military microgrids must balance electricity supply with demand. As demand approaches the available generation capacity, loads shedding is often performed by operating building-level circuit breakers, meaning that entire buildings housing mission critical activities must be excluded from any load management, while those considered non-critical may lose service entirely. The goal of the work is to be able to perform more granular levels of load shedding in islanded microgrids through the integration of a microgrid controller and an OpenADR-compliant appliance. The presentation will describe the results from a field demonstration of this solution and includes descriptions of the control architecture, the results from both lab and field tests, and the cybersecurity implications.