DEFENSE INSTALLATION ENERGY RESILIENCE FOR CHANGING OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

A process is proposed to determine the impact of different potential mission scenarios upon energy resilience for mission-critical loads attached to a military base’s microgrid infrastructure. This process applies to any institution with changing operational states whose energy resilience requirements necessitates redundant electrical supply. The methodology may be used by energy managers to account for potential mission scenarios that a base may be part of, followed by assessing the microgrid energy resilience to supply the critical loads for said mission scenarios, especially where external grid power may be unavailable and/or damage to facility microgrid systems may be present. In the event a microgrid design is unable to provide sufficient electrical energy, distributed energy resources (DERs), including energy storage systems and renewable energy resources, may be added to improve energy resilience. A case study is conducted with a fictitious military base, microgrid design, and changing operational demands to demonstrate the application of the methodology. This paper contributes a method for energy managers to evaluate energy resilience using microgrids by accounting for potential mission operations, their energy requirements, resulting energy preparedness, and recommendations for improvement as necessary.

Department dc:contributor.department

Systems Engineering (SE)

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Mallery, Janice L.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Pollman, Anthony G.
• Van Bossuyt, Douglas

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/68733

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/68733