Smart Grid

Exploring solutions to improve and optimize the smart grid technologies. Committed to delivering solutions to improve and optimize the smart grid technologies while supporting future renewable energy and grid integration initiatives by improving grid efficiency and reducing peak demand through advanced grid components.

Smart Energy Management & Automation System

A smart grid requires intelligent components for performing centralized and decentralized control functions.
The intelligent components enables the control system of the future coordinates multiple areas of conventional telecontrol applications, micro-grid controlling, substation automation, and smart metering. Our research covers the following area:
- Secured & Intelligent Substation Automation System
- Smart Energy Management Applications
- Communication Networks for Smart Metering, SCADA
- Solar Resource Assessment
- Solar resource characterization and mapping
- PV Performance & Reliability
- PV technology evaluation, performance model, PV optimization, O & M, and PV system design
- Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
- Grid interconnection study, computer modeling, and simulation, coordinated control of RE and virtual power plant
- Floating Solar Energy System
- Site identification and assessment of the system

Advance Diagnostics Technologies for Power System

Capable of delivering innovative approaches in sensing and information extraction systems.
This research promises a highly efficient way of monitoring the health of a system and detecting the onset of abnormal behavior. Our research focuses on:
- Transformer Health Monitoring & Analytics
- Transformer Oil Characterisation with Optical Detection System
- IOT Sensor Management, Analytics & Database Tools
- Battery Monitoring & Analytics Tools
- Solar Resource Assessment
- Solar resource characterization and mapping
- PV Performance & Reliability
- PV technology evaluation, performance model, PV optimization, O & M, and PV system design
- Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
- Grid interconnection study, computer modeling, and simulation, coordinated control of RE and virtual power plant
- Floating Solar Energy System
- Site identification and assessment of the system

Power Quality & System Stability

Dedicated to supporting customers’ future Renewable Energy (RE) and Grid Integration initiatives. This research improves system efficiency and peak demand through energy storage solutions. Our research covers the following:
- Dip Free System (DFS)/Voltage Sag
- Community-Scale Energy Storage System (CESS)
- Volt/VAr Optimisation (VVO)
- Solar Resource Assessment
- Solar resource characterization and mapping
- PV Performance & Reliability
- PV technology evaluation, performance model, PV optimization, O & M, and PV system design
- Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources
- Grid interconnection study, computer modeling, and simulation, coordinated control of RE and virtual power plant
- Floating Solar Energy System
- Site identification and assessment of the system

We offer the following solutions:

Dip Free System (DFS)

Providing a feasible long-term uninterruptible power supply solution to severely affected customers due to voltage sag/dip. The medium voltage DFS technical solution will provide 100% protection to customers with equipment that is sensitive to voltage sags/dips.
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

Supporting utilities and customers with a mature technology to implement an effective energy management program due to its flexible deployment. It supports a wide range of applications with different economic benefits in various aspects such as renewable energy, industrials, utilities, virtual power plants, and microgrids.
Volt/Var Optimisation (VVO)

An automated voltage and reactive power control system to measure and maintain the voltages in acceptable range with high power factor at all points in the distribution network under varying load conditions. It will improve the efficiency of the distribution network with less power loss and peak demand reduction leading to investment deferral of the network upgrade, hence, minimizing the operational cost of utilities.
Self-Healing Grid

Focusing on advanced Distribution Automation schemes and SCADA systems that enable self-healing grid capability and controller-free operation for fast supply recovery in TNB distribution network substations. Our expertise covers grid sensors and infrastructure management, smart solar-powered SCADA facilities.
Energy Efficiency

Providing energy management software applications that enable dynamic supply and demand management based on near real-time information for utilities, large power, and ordinary power consumers with our expertise in the following areas: Smart energy management toolkit, DER aggregation, VPP platforms.
Empowered Customers Solutions

Implementing the latest communication networks that can efficiently cater to utility applications such as Smart Meters, Smart Street Lights, and Electric Vehicles. With the growing demands in this area, our unit is also capable of providing services and consultancy on the energy data platform and analytics.
Smart Cities

Supplying and delivering Internet of Things computing hardware and sensor management software for Smart City project in the following areas: environmental monitoring, flood level and water pump monitoring, integrated CCTV surveillance, smart streetlight solutions.
Smart Grid Demonstration

TNB Research is in a strategic partnership with the government agency to showcase the adoption of RE integrated Smart Grid facilitated through demonstration activities of distributed solar PV systems, solar-powered EV charging facilities, battery energy storage, energy efficiency and renewable energy application in buildings, and related cloud-based Internet of Technology solutions.