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Driven by the need to offset the variability of wind and solar generation onthe electrical grid, development of load controls is a highly active field inthe engineering literature. However, practical use of residential loads forgrid balancing and ancillary services remains rare, in part due to the relativecost of communicating with hordes of small loads and also due to the limitedexperimentation done so far to demonstrate reliable operation. To establish abasis for the safe and reliable use of fleets of small compressor loads asdistributed energy resources (DERs), we have constructed an experimentaltestbed in a laboratory, so that load coordination schemes can be tested atextreme conditions within a laboratory environment. This experiment can be usedto tune a simulation testbed to which it can then be linked, thereby augmentingthe effective size of the ensemble of loads. Control algorithms can simply beplugged in for testing. Modeling of the system was done both to demonstrate theexperimental testbed's behavior and also to understand how to tune the behaviorof each participating model house in the system. Implementing this testbed hasbeen useful for the rapid turnaround of experiments on various control types,and it enables testing year-round without the constraints and limitationsarising in seasonal field tests with real human participants.

Tunable Experimental Testbed for Evaluating Load Coordination Methods