Active site

Abstract

The rapid spread of decentralized generation (such as rooftop photovoltaics) is fundamentally changing the way electricity distribution works. Many sites, ranging from college campuses to industrialor military complexes, now feature extensive generation and storage and are thus developing into local grids that are almost miniature versions of the outside grid. These sites can (partially)cover their own needs while utilizing their outside connection to source what they cannot themselves generate (or offload the excess). This is where ABB's Active Site technology comes in: An Active Site can control and optimize the microgrid and its interface to the macrogrid, ensuring an optimization of energy usage and costs while permitting the microgrid to participate fully in what is often called the smart grid.