Power Quality Monitoring within the electrical grid of the Campus Lichtwiese

Based on monitoring data and simulations, concepts will be developed which will guarantee the voltage quality for the intended network expansion of the campus in the direction of a “green campus”.

The core of the investigations is the Power Quality Monitoring System, which will be set up in the campus network. At the medium-voltage level of the electrical grid and at the low-voltage level of large-scale consumers interesting for power quality investigations, network analysers will be installed to collect data on a permanent basis.

These data will be used, on the one hand, to investigate the voltage quality and, on the other, to determine the voltage dependence of the electrical load on the campus Lichtwiese. The knowledge about the latter should be used for a better utilization of the voltage band and thus enable a loss-optimized and more reliable operation of the electrical network.

Furthermore, the high baseload of the campus will be investigated in detail with the help of the implemented monitoring system. The aim is to justify the significant difference between base load and peak load of the individual campus sections and to derive energy efficiency measures from this knowledge.