DYNAMIC HOSTING CAPACITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DER INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT ON DISTRIBUTION UTILITY NETWORKS

A distributed energy resource management system utilizes capacity on a distribution grid to host further distributed energy resource interconnections. In an embodiment, the system utilizes a data store including operational values associated with distributed electric resources on an electric power distribution network and a processor or processors coupled to the data store and in communication with the distributed electric resources. The computer processors are programmed, upon receiving one or more requests, to create 3-phase AC power flows for each location across the electric power distribution network. Optimizations of the 3-phase AC power flows to are used to calculate hosting capacity for each of the locations, for each of a plurality of time intervals, and each of a plurality of types of distributed energy resource, as a dynamic quantity that can change depending on time, day, season, and location. The hosting capacity is translated into calculated operational values which are used to determine and send a direction to actively manage distributed energy resources on the electric power distribution network.