Kevin Kircher and Xiaonan Lu
The DC Nanogrid House is an occupied test house at Purdue University. Since 2017, Purduere searchers have renovated the 1920s-era detached single-family home withinsulation, heat pumps for space conditioning and domestic water heating, solarphotovoltaics, electrical and thermal energy storage, bidirectional electric vehicle charging, and a DC bus in addition to conventional AC wiring. In this talk, we will discuss the history and vision of the project; our progress toward connecting the natively DC solar photovoltaics, batteries, and motors ona DC nanogrid; DC microgrid hierarchical control diagram; and our recent workon developing supervisory and real-time control layers.
