Object Oriented EMT simulation framework for On-Grid Centralized Microgrid

The growing demand of electricity can be fulfilled by increasing the generation of electricity. In present scenario the governments are driving to generate electricity with renewable energy technology. Electricity regulators are proposing new regulations to motivate small scale investors and entrepreneurs to invest in the installation of microgrids of 0.5 to 5 MW capacity in order to promote further renewable energy generation. At the same time, strict guidelines is being issued for the appropriate design of the microgrid. There are various design parameters need to be evaluated before the installation of these microgrids. Electromagnetic transient (EMT) analysis is one of the useful tool for evaluating peak voltage, current and insulation coordination for the microgrid. This work focuses to design EMT simulation framework on object oriented platform. The object oriented solver (OOS) is lightweight so it can be executed with processors such as Intel Gallilio and Raspberry-Pi etc. A comparative study of OOS and MATLAB based EMTP-type simulation framework has been presented in tabulated form.