Solar Microgrid
540 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
34.05892469,-118.44814096
About
Professor Rajit Gadh's living lab is in 5 of UCLA's parking lots, charging electric vehicles(EVs" and sending the data back to UCLA's Smart Grid Energy Research Center(SMERC). In there there is a box connected to the wall and then to thick electric cables, which then get attached to the EV's. This box is a smart communications and control devices part of the WINSmart EVNetwork and SMERC app. "The lab also incorporates UCLA’s Microgrid Integration system, which aims to make the smart grid a two-way street: Both the EV driver and the grid operator will be participants in how the electricity is consumed. Electrical energy is being collected via rooftop solar panels and cogeneration and stored in batteries in the SMERC lab that can be dispatched to EVs plugged into the charging system. But EVs can also provide energy back into the system."(newsroom@ucla)
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Roof of Parking Structure 9 |
SMERC