Borrego Springs Microgrid Operation and Control: An Overview

Shifting trend of power system from non-renewable resources to renewable have caught a great interest in establishing more microgrids to meet all the global concerns of fuel exhaustion, clean energy, and climate change. Easy integration with existing traditional power plants with a specialized control system has make microgrids a hot topic in modern power system research. This paper provides an overview of Borrego Springs, one of the United States first utility-scale microgrid based in California. The paper provides a detailed insight into power capacity, power conversion, voltage distribution and load demand of the microgrid, and then proposes a control system that functions under variable demand.