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Architecture of a network-in-the-Loop environment for characterizing AC power system behavior

This research, funded by Rolls-Royce, led to an entire laboratory power network being placed in the loop of a large power-network simulation, giving power-hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) capability. The facility attracts international industrial testing projects, e.g. ‘DERri [EU FP7, £323k, 2009-2013] (Distributed Energy Resources research infrastructure)-DISCOSE’ with TNO (http://www.tno.nl/) [€15k, 2012, max.schreuder@tno.nl], and is the most requested in EU DERri Transnational Access calls [Giorgio.Franchioni@rse-web.it], with users from Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. Together with European collaborators such as Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) [Thomas.Strasser@ait.ac.at] and EdF [eric.lambert@edf.fr]), this facility is enabling development of standards for interfacing to hardware-in-the-loop systems.