From simulation to reality: Testing today a decentralised grid operation of the future

New ideas to operate and optimise the distribution grid of the future are regularly proposed by scientists. These new ideas are required as answer to the massive transformations that are currently happening in the distribution grid. One promising path is to move from the classic central to a more decentralised and distributed control. The work in this study highlights the main solutions developed to realise a new decentralised grid operation concept that is compatible with a classic operation scheme. The field test was one of the main demonstrators in the EU-funded project DREAM.