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This paper presents a multi-loop control strategy for parallel distributed generation (DG) units in standalone mode of operation. Indeed, an Adaptive Proportional plus Multi Resonant (Adaptive P+MR) controller is designed for the voltage control loop and a simple Proportional regulator is used for the inner current loop. The proposed frequency adaptive control structure is also prorogued to parallel...
This paper presents a suitable output voltage control approach for parallel distributed generation (DG) units working in standalone operating mode. Indeed, an Adaptive Multi Resonant controller with weighted State Feedbacks is optimally designed for the voltage control loop while a Proportional regulator is proposed for the inner current loop. Thankful to its frequency adjusting ability, the proposed...
In this paper, economic simulations of virtual power plants participating on the Swiss balancing market are performed and discussed. The simulations are performed by creating a generic simulation model for balancing markets which account for functions such as bidding, market clearing, delivery of control energy, and others. Several simulations allowed to estimate the opportunity from both the capacity...
In this paper, a coordinated state-of-charge (SOC) control strategy for the energy storage system operating under microgrid islanded mode to stabilize the frequency and voltage was proposed. The proposed SOC control loop makes up of PI controller, which uses a SOC state of the energy storage system (ESS) as an input and an auxiliary reference value of secondary control as an output. The SOC controller...
Hawaii Electric Light operates an autonomous power system on the island of Hawaii with a diverse mix of generating resources. Although the system is small, with an annual peak in 2009 of less than 200 MW, the power system balancing and frequency control is provided through a conventional centralized Automatic Generation Control system. The mix of generation resources on the Hawaii Electric Light System...
A microgrid is a controllable component of the smart grid defined as a part of distribution network capable of supplying its own local load even in the case of disconnection from the upstream network. Microgrids incorporate large amount of renewable and non-renewable distributed generation (DG) that are connected to the system either directly or by power electronics (PE) interface. The diversity of...
This paper proposes a novel strategy of control of the active power flow from the power system grid to a micro grid by a power electronic transformer (PET), consisting of controllable loads and distributed energy resources (DER), both renewable and non-renewable. A 60 Hz, step down transformer is generally used at the Point of common coupling (PCC) of a micro grid to connect to the power system grid...
Islanding detection is one of the most dominant challenges for distributed generation systems connected to the main power grid. Rudimentary islanding detection methods (frequency relays, voltage relays), have considerable non-detection zones (NDZ). Nod-detection zone which defines as the area that the method fails to detect the islanding, is the primary criterion to evaluate the detection method performance...
Poor voltage and frequency regulation under source and load perturbations limit the use of self excited induction generator (SEIG) in isolated and dispersed generation, which can exploit wind/microhydro type renewable energy sources. In the present work, a Generalized Impedance Controller (GIC), which is a pulse-width-modulated voltage-source-inverter with a dc-link battery, is used to regulate both,...
An intelligent strategy for monitoring and control of a grid independent microgrid having an energy storage module, wind induction generator, and loads is presented in this paper. The goal for intelligent monitoring and control of the microgrid is to have real and reactive power control while regulating line voltage and frequency and thus maximizing the use of renewable resources. First, a conventional...
This paper addresses how future Smart Grid measurement, analysis and control technologies could be applied to significantly enhance methods for system restoration. The paper reviews the common phases for system restoration from system assessment, creation of restoration building blocks, expansion of islands, re-integration with neighboring systems through to customer load restoration. A number of...
This paper presents a novel wireless load-sharing control strategy, active droop positioning, for islanding parallel inverters in an ac-distributed system. Normally, the microgrid is intended to operate in islanded mode when the disconnection from the upstream MV network occurs. In this condition, the inverter-interfaced microsources acts as a voltage source, with the magnitude and frequency of the...
Distributed generation in islanded power systems has unique characteristics when it comes to power system stability and control. Relatively low system inertia and the power system configuration of intertie connections between distributed generation facilities necessitate the implementation of power management control algorithms that provide both proactive and reactive stabilization techniques to ensure...
The frequency stability analysis in an autonomous microgrid (MG) with renewable energy sources (RES) is a continuously studied issue. This paper presents an original method for modeling an autonomous MG with a battery energy storage system (BESS) and a wind power plant (WPP), with the purpose of frequency stability analysis. A reduced order model is developed, considering only the dominant elements...
This paper describes a method to enhance the load frequency control in a power system with distributed generations (DG). In this paper, a power storage system is used with photovoltaic generation and wind power generation. The microgrid system at Aichi Institute of Technology in Japan is used as a simulation model. For each simulation, which was carried out by using a power transmission simulator,...
This paper introduces a microgrid system having been developed in Korea. Firstly, the Korean Power IT (Information Technology) development program and its environment are shortly described including the concept of Korean microgrid and characteristics of its components. And then, the microgrid system, the functions of its components and test facilities are explained which are established in KERI (Korea...
This paper proposes a new method to determine the droop of the inverter-based distribution generations (DGs). Conventionally, inverter-based DGs have droop controller with fixed slope according to their capacity. Some additional control methods have been proposed in order to enforce the maximum or minimum limit of a unit. However, in some severe cases, the frequency deviation during the islanded mode...
This paper presents a discussion on the control techniques required for microgrid operation and implements a simple control strategy in a microgrid model realized with Matlab. The modeling and control strategy are kept elementary. This is done in order to use developed model for teaching and student training purpose for power system curriculum in undergraduate courses. The model is helpful in introducing...
This paper examines stability performances of a micro-grid application under both small and large disturbances, including islanding mode of operation. The system modeled encompasses dynamics and control of the doubly-fed induction generator, wind turbine, synchronous generator, and constant-power load. Fluctuation of wind speed is modeled using Weibull distribution. Simulated test results reveal that...
This paper proposes a structure of an HILS based development system for MMS. This system is composed of RTDS and its hardware interface devices, MMS, communication emulator modules. The RTDS is operated for real-time simulation for both microgrid and microsource models. By using this HILS system, the secondary regulation action of MMS during an islanded operation is evaluated. The secondary regulation...
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