Indra Monash Smart City

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The Indra Monash Smart City will demonstrate how smart and renewable technologies can be integrated at the Monash University Clayton embedded network to maintain power quality and test market driven responses and business models.Indra’s Active Grid Management (InGRID AGM) platform will provide real-time monitoring and control over the grid-connected assets, and be optimised to add value to customers, market participants and the electricity grid.Key findingsThe operational readiness of both solutions and customers is critical to enabling microgrid technology.A well-designed data governance framework is a critical early-stage consideration for future projects where large and sensitive datasets are generated.Cyber Security Frameworks specific to energy systems are important, particularly as energy systems continue to digitalise and increasingly consist of network, and internet, connected components.The value microgrids can provide continues to evolve, and access to value streams is increasing as markets for demand side flexibility increase in maturity, which will continue to enhance the commercial viability of microgrid systems in a range of settings.The microgrid model developed in this project provides further validation of suitable applications that should be targeted. Larger residential areas prone to bushfires or severe weather events, commercial offices and shopping centres, and large precincts are priority locations for microgrid implementations. A diminishing number of barriers still exist, which would benefit from further research.

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