Comparing Specification and Design Approaches for Power Systems Applications

The upcoming large-scale integration of distributed energy resources into power distribution grids motivates the implementation of advanced control applications to ensure security of supply and power quality. The realization of such increasingly complex applications is also characterized by higher engineering efforts, even resulting in increased total life-cycle costs. However, by using proper method and corresponding tools there is a huge optimization potential for the engineering process. Various approaches and tools with different characteristics have been developed so far in order to provide support along the engineering and validation process of power system applications. However, it is not always clear which tools are the best choice for the different development steps. In order to overcome this issue this work provides a comparison of specification and design approaches which are being commonly used in the domain of power and energy systems.