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Electrical

Small Wind

Solar

Battery Storage

Diesel Generator

Microturbines

Operational

Utility Connection

Data Center
Critical

Facility

Office Space
Noncritical

Absorption Chiller

Storage Tank

Electric Chiller

Boiler

Air Handler

Heat Exchanger

Figure 7. The assets available at the OATI South Campus Microgrid.

supervisory control and data acquisition functionality to
monitor the operating status of the various building
equipment, update the available capacities, adjust market offerings, receive market dispatch signals, and implement control actions. The aforementioned services do
not require energy to be exported from the facility and
will be delivered by adjusting the building load. The facility provides the required telemetry as well as the measurement and verification functions for these services.
The aforementioned capabilities are currently undergoing tests in advance of full building commissioning,
scheduled for the latter part of 2016. Currently, market
price signals are available only for a subset of the services,
but the building and its master control system is being
positioned to support the functionality listed.

For Further reading
F. Rahimi and F. Albuyeh, "Applying lessons learned from
transmission open access to distribution and grid-edge
transactive energy systems," presented at the IEEE Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Minneapolis,
MN, Sept. 2016.
F. Rahimi, A. Ipakchi, and F. Fletcher, "The changing electrical landscape," IEEE Power Energy Mag., vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 52-62,
May-June 2016.
F. A. Rahimi and S. Mokhtari, "From ISO to DSO: A new
DSO construct," Public Utilities Fortnightly, pp. 42-50, June 2014.
F.A. Rahimi and A. Ipakchi, "TE techniques: Closing the
gap between wholesale and retail markets," Electricity J., vol.
25/8, pp. 29-35, Nov. 2012.

F.A. Rahimi and A. Ipakchi. (2011, Sept.). Transaction-based
techniques for bulk power operation under the smart grid
paradigm. IEEE Smart Grid Newslett. [Online]. http://smartgrid
.ieee.org/newsletters/september-2011/transaction-basedtechniques-for-bulk-power-operation-will-be-usefulin-distribution
F.A. Rahimi and A. Ipakchi, "DR as market resource under
the smart grid paradigm," IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 1, no. 1,
June 2010.

biographies
Farrokh Rahimi (farrokh.rahimi@oati.net) earned his
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1970. He
has more than 40 years of experience in the electric
power industry and is currently senior vice president of
market design and consulting at Open Access Technology International (OATI), where he oversees the development of market design and consulting activities and
is a key contributor to OATI's smart grid and grid modernization activities.
Ali Ipakchi (ali.ipakchi@oati.net) earned his Ph.D.
degree in automatic controls from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. He is the senior vice president
of smart grid and green power at Open Access Technology
International and has held various technical lead and
management positions in power systems applications and
system solutions.

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