One of ERIGrid's goals is to actively contribute to educating power systems and ICT professionals, young researchers and students on the topics related to smart grid systems: smart grid operation, validation and testing, and rollout scenarios.

Through these activities, ERIGrid promotes the benefits that the concept of smart grids offers, such as reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the electrical energy system, and assists young researchers in creating new solutions for the emerging challenges.

In this context ERIGrid also carries out staff exchanges between the project partners. Having both industrial and academic researchers in the project consortium, ERIGrid ensures optimal sharing of infrastructures and strong collaborations within the project.

On 5 December 2017 the ERIGrid consortium held a webinar on power hardware in the loop (PHIL) simulation for DER and smart grids showcasing best practices and experiences in the project.

This webinar focused on the following topics:

• Characteristics of PHIL simulation
• Stability, accuracy issues, interface topologies and stabilisation methods
• PHIL tests that show the value of the approach: DER inverters providing ancillary services, voltage-frequency control, microgrids, etc
• Improved Hardware in the Loop (HIL) methods in the ERIGrid project
• Live demonstration of HIL tests

You can find all slides from the webinar presentations here and the demo of hardware in the loop experiments here.