Making Power Quality Monitoring more accessible, by emulating grid behavior and creating a tool to visualize power quality data.

Power quality monitoring is becoming more and more relevant, due to the increasing market penetration of renewable energy sources. In addition to this power quality monitoring is currently very costly and only done by large power companies. This suffices if you are connected to a large stable grid, but what if you want to make use of your own generated power more effectively, or you have to manage a smaller microgrid, mostly reliant on renewable sources. For this reason, this paper first analyzes power quality and current power quality monitoring. After which the problems with current power quality monitoring are identified. Then a power-quality monitoring (PQM) device is introduced and analyzed, such that its behavior can be emulated. Then a visualization tool is used to make its data more accessible. This work is done to increase the effectiveness of the PQM-device and to show what can be done with power quality monitoring if done effectively.