Our institute has recently been awarded the contract for a large-scale equipment project (DFG large-scale equipment action HAW) on the topic of "Distributed Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Agent System (vPHILAS)".

The planned vPHILAS enables the emulation, analysis and optimisation of the future electrical energy system (DC, AC and hybrid system) and its participants through interaction and coupling of a real-time grid simulator (RNS) with any number of power hardware-in-the-loop agents (PHILA). For this purpose, existing laboratory test benches are integrated into a PHILA as devices-under-test (DUT; e.g. wind power, PV & HVDC emulators) with the help of a grid emulator (NE). Further PHILAs will be linked together across laboratories and worldwide via the Internet using a grid emulator interface (NEI; a software and hardware interface to be developed/built) in a modular and flexible manner to form an electrical energy system of any size.