Development of educational support system for energy management system (EMS)

In recent years, the students studying electrical engineering tend to have lower interest in the fields related to electrical machinery and electric power than that in fields such as AI, robotics, and information technologies. On the other hand, the use of renewable energy such as solar power and wind power is rapidly spreading, and an advanced control technology is needed for the electric power system. Therefore, the next generation electric power system called as smart grid or micro grid have greatly attracted attention. It is very important to train engineer familiar with these new electric power systems. The authors have developed a learning support system that can be learned by remote experiment using ICT for the Energy Management System (EMS). This paper describes learning tasks and experimental tasks in the developed system. In addition, we confirmed the educational effects of the developed system. © 2019 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.