An Electric Power System Energy Management Platform (EMP) Research Testbed

This paper presents an overview of the development of an Energy Management Platform (EMP) research testbed for power system monitoring and control. In this work, a testbed utilizes a simulator to mimic power system operations on a synthetic network. By emulating field devices, the simulator is used to further transmit grid data over a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to an EMS software. Finally, through the design of oneline diagrams, a node-branch layout algorithm is proposed to develop interface substation displays for controlling the power system networks being used in the testbed.