2020 PES ISGT Europe 10/28 Panel 8 Video: Real-Time Simulation and HIL Testing: Validating Technologies for a Smarter, More Sustainable Grid

Real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing has been used in the power industry for over twenty-five years. Originally developed as a solution for flexibly testing the control and protection associated with HVDC projects, the application of the technology is now widespread and varied, and today real-time simulators are used particularly effectively in the smart grid technologies space. The devices associated with and required by smart grids have the potential to interact with eachother and with existing technologies, and given the fast-acting nature of modern control and protection systems, the tools required to study them in detail must be capable of representing subcycle phenomena. Real-time simulators offer an electromagnetic transient representation of the power system along with the ability to connect devices in a closed-loop with the simulated network for flexible, controlled, and safe testing prior to deployment. This panel session highlights recent exciting projects from real-time simulator users validating and de-risking enabling technologies for a smarter, more sustainable grid.