AMIGO's innovative control algorithms are used wherever energy is generated, stored, distributed, and consumed locally, as well as for feeding regular high- and extra-high-voltage grids. Applications can be found wherever microgrids are emerging today – from e-mobility charging stations and combined-system photovoltaic installations to heating plants and utilities supplying urban areas or large rural zones.
RTSoft's AMIGO system autonomously monitors, controls, and manages low- and medium-voltage microgrids (from 1kV to 60kV) without human intervention. It coordinates, among other things, distributed energy resources and storage systems, Volt-VAR controllers, and demand response units. This allows users to reduce the influence of external grids, lower tariffs through peak load management, and minimize maintenance costs by improving the reliability and quality of their grid control—for example, in terms of active power, frequency, reactive power, and voltages. Furthermore, users can generate additional revenue from active load frequency control services and achieve grid capacity savings by integrating active demand response management.
Unlike conventional medium-voltage network control technologies, RTSoft's AMIGO system provides fully configurable logic for the automatic, rule-based control of all local heterogeneous resources and consumers. Compared to previously available network control technologies for municipal services and industrial applications, AMIGO also impresses with a clearly modular design and a completely open system architecture without vendor restrictions, ultimately leading to significantly lower operating costs.
Because the AMIGO system is designed for the control of microgrids spanning entire cities, the smart grid management software can easily control multiple substation microgrids, including Volt-VAR control as well as FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration) functions. Similarly, distributed energy resource aggregators can benefit from using AMIGO and maintain virtual power plants. Island systems without connection to the public electricity grid are also possible.
The AMIGO scalable management and control software runs on central servers or remote microgrid controllers. The intelligent AMIGO SCADA server connects generators, energy storage, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), smart meters, and other microgrid peripherals via common remote sensor protocols such as IEC 61850 and IEC 870-5-1-101/103/104, or OPC and MODBUS. The core modules of the AMIGO microgrid control system include AGC (Automatic Generation Control) and V/VC (Automatic Voltage and Reactive Power Control) modules, as well as numerous modules for planning, analyzing, and optimizing resource utilization, load flow, and connection to superordinate power transmission networks, along with self-diagnostics.
