Panel Session: Coordinating Applications and Multiple Objectives within Advanced Distribution Operations Platforms (slides)

Distribution operations must increasingly achieve a range of competing objectives including economic viability, reliability, resilience, decarbonization, and equity. Meanwhile, behind-the-meter generation and storage and other grid-edge devices are introducing objectives across ownership boundaries that cannot be resolved by a single centralized (or distributed) controller or optimization program. Distribution operations platforms (e.g., ADMS and DERMS) integrate data from multiple sources while offering the flexibility of modular development and deployment of functional applications. Functional requirements for different modules span domains and solutions operate on multiple timescales with a range of computational needs. Coordination is needed at the system level to ensure that modular, distributed, and grid-edge applications with competing objectives do not fight over equipment setpoints or interfere with system-level operating requirements. This panel will discuss the coordination, control, and integration in a multiple-objective environment that spans distribution operations to the grid edge. Panelists will describe utility perspectives, practical solutions, and applied R&D.