Fig. 3: Panoramic view of the converter-based IEEE 9-bus microgrid platform, featuring five distributed generation units, alongside the OPAL-RT-based Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) platform for the multi-area interconnected power system.
From: A blockchain consensus mechanism for real-time regulation of renewable energy power systems

a Line impedance of the 9-bus and five local loads. b Raspberry Pi-based blockchain implementation. c Photovoltaic (PV) panels. d Energy storage units. e Photovoltaic simulator. f Raspberry Pi-based ASDM and actuators. g DC converters. h DC sources. i Real-time digital simulator. j Upper computer.