The EnergyVille Digital Grid Emulation Lab is a multifunctional lab with grid emulator capabilities. Our detailed real-time power system simulators enable the testing of grid control functionality in close to real-life system conditions.

Contact
Kris Baert
Business Developer Electrical networks
Description
Technical Notes
Advantages
Full-detailed system tests to meet the needs of future power systems: from concept over conformity with new standards to
full system integration.
Our experienced team offers:
- Expertise on power system modelling (especially HVDC)
- Protection relay testing (including IEC 61850)
- Power Hardware in the Loop (P-HIL) testing through a virtual grid integration of new components (e.g. converters, battery systems, …)
Applications
- Pre-tender spec validation for new grid assets
- Testing performance and configuration of new equipment
- Offline investigations of non-trivial fault situations
- Training personnel (operational and configuration of equipment)
- Verification of grid connection set-up
- Grid code compliance testing
- Pro-active testing of future standards and protocols
- Interoperability testing at neutral ground
Our offer
- Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop (C-HIL)
- Integration of equipment that has a control function in the grid
- Intelligent on-load tap changer control
- Variable and unbalanced voltage controller in systems with significant single phase infeed
- Grid protection (relays)
- Study of the effect of RES penetration on existing and future grid protection
- Integration of equipment that has a control function in the grid
- Communication infrastructure
- e.g. Smart meters or smart substation equipment
- Through new communication protocols & through new substation communication protocols (e.g. IEC 61850)
- Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop (P-HIL)
- Connecting equipment through their power circuits (loads, generators, converters, breakers,...) to a grid emulator
- Specific examples: PV installations, batteries
- Interface studies with different RES integration levels or different grid concepts
Customers
- Transmission System Operators
- Distribution System Operators
- RES developers
- Equipment manufacturers
- Industrial players in energy business
- Aggregators or VPP
Computational backbone
-> Real-time EMT simulations of power systems
- RTDS
- World industry standard in real-time power system testing
- EMT simulation of up to 720 single-phase nodes typical system timestep 25-50μs power electronics 2μs
- Analog & Digital component interfacing (I/O channels) for P-HIL & C-HIL testing
- Network interfacing
- IEC 61850 GOOSE Messaging
- IEC 61850-9-2 sampled value messaging
- IEC 60870-5-104 SCADA communication protocol
- World industry standard in real-time power system testing
- OPAL-RT
- Matlab/SIMULINK based OP 5600 real-time testing platform
- EMT simulation of up to 300 single-phase nodes
- Optical coupling with Triphase rapid-prototyping platform
- Matlab/SIMULINK based OP 5600 real-time testing platform
Signal amplifiers
- 4 2x6 channel amplifiers: testing of up to 8 protection relays simultaneously typical system timestep 25-50μs power electronics 2μs
Linear high-bandwidth amplifier
- Spitzenberger & Spies: 4 quadrant 4 x 5 kVA (3-phase + neutral)
- High bandwidth for power-electronic control testing
- 50 kHz small-signal bandwidth
- 5 kHz large-signal bandwidth
Switched-mode high-power amplifiers
- Triphase power amplifiers: several active front ends with DC/DC capabilities
- e.g. Triphase PM 90: 90 kVA 3-phase AC active front
- 2x15kVA AC/DC Converter for bipolar DC grid operation
- Coupling of up to 4 Triphase amplifiers with OPAL-RT simultaneously
SCADA Interfacing with distribution management system
- GE PowerOn Advantage ADMS
Protection relays: overcurrent, distance, differential
- Remote Terminal Units (RTU)
Interfacing with other EnergyVille laboratories possible
- Home Lab
- Low voltage AC and DC grids
- Battery Testing Lab
- Commercial Roof PV power plant