The Illuminator: An Open Source Energy System Integration Development Kit

Aihui Fu; Raghav  Saini; Remko Koornneef; Arjen van der Meer; Peter Palensky; Milos Cvetkovic

doi:10.1109/PowerTech55446.2023.10202816

The Illuminator: An Open Source Energy System Integration Development Kit

Aihui Fu^*, Raghav Saini, Remko Koornneef, Arjen van der Meer, Peter Palensky, Milos Cvetkovic

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Abstract

This paper introduces a flexible and extendable easy-to-use energy system integration development kit: the Illuminator. The Illuminator illustrates challenges arising from the energy transition. Hence, it is suitable in education and for demonstration. It also acts as a sandbox for testing new research concepts, and particularly, distributed energy coordination algorithms in real and non-real time. The Illuminator technology is primarely a modular software platform developed to run on a Raspberry Pi (RasPi) cluster. It is open-source, available at GitHub and developed in Python. The Illuminator comprises models of common energy technologies, such as photovoltaic (PV) panels, wind turbines, batteries, and hydrogen systems. The uniqueness of the Illuminator is in its modularity and flexibility to reconfigure scenarios and cases on the fly, even by non-experts in a plug-and-play fashion. This paper introduces the Illuminator and shows its performance in a simple case study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-8778-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-8779-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerTech55446.2023.10202816
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech - Belgrade, Serbia Duration: 25 Jun 2023 → 29 Jun 2023

Publication series

Name	2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, PowerTech 2023

Conference

Conference	2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech
Country/Territory	Serbia
City	Belgrade
Period	25/06/23 → 29/06/23

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

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Energy system integration
open source
education
energy transition
demonstration

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Fu, A, Saini, R, Koornneef, R , van der Meer, A , Palensky, P & Cvetkovic, M 2023, The Illuminator: An Open Source Energy System Integration Development Kit. in Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech. 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, PowerTech 2023, IEEE, Piscataway, pp. 1-5, 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, Belgrade, Serbia, 25/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerTech55446.2023.10202816

The Illuminator: An Open Source Energy System Integration Development Kit. / Fu, Aihui; Saini, Raghav ; Koornneef, Remko et al.
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech. Piscataway: IEEE, 2023. p. 1-5 (2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, PowerTech 2023).

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