KEMA, Dutch ECN Open Research Lab
KEMA and the Dutch Ministry for Economic Affairs (ECN) have opened an innovative laboratory in the Netherlands to research and test advanced power electronics for use in electric transmission and distribution grids.
At the heart of the newly opened Flex Power Grid Laboratory, being financed jointly by KEMA and ECN, is a programmable converter that allows for testing equipment continuously at industrial medium voltages, 10 times higher than at any other existing laboratory worldwide.
In addition to housing a wide range of capacitors, resistors and reactors as loads, the facility's intelligent control equipment makes the lab unique. This means that a live representation of a real grid can be built with real components and with all of the features against which to test the components.
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