TY - GEN
T1 - A DER based voltage control strategy for microgrids
AU - Massa, Giovanni
AU - Galdi, Vincenzo
AU - Calderaro, Vito
AU - Piccolo, Antonio
AU - Gross, George
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Power Systems Computation Conference.
PY - 2016/8/10
Y1 - 2016/8/10
N2 - Recently, the ability of microgrids (μgs) to allow a deeper penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in Distribution Networks (DNs) has facilitated their widely spread deployment. Because of the variability associated with the loads and the intrinsic intermittent and nature of renewable energy resources, the development and implementation of effective voltage control strategies is essential to reliably serve the loads, in particular when working islanded from the main grid. To face this problem, we propose a dispersed control approach capable to maintain voltage levels within the operational limits by means of DERs reactive and active power support. We implement an optimization framework to prove the robustness of the proposed control methodology. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology with a set of representative studies from the testing of the simulation approach we performed, proving the absence of any opportunity cost involved by the control action.
AB - Recently, the ability of microgrids (μgs) to allow a deeper penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in Distribution Networks (DNs) has facilitated their widely spread deployment. Because of the variability associated with the loads and the intrinsic intermittent and nature of renewable energy resources, the development and implementation of effective voltage control strategies is essential to reliably serve the loads, in particular when working islanded from the main grid. To face this problem, we propose a dispersed control approach capable to maintain voltage levels within the operational limits by means of DERs reactive and active power support. We implement an optimization framework to prove the robustness of the proposed control methodology. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology with a set of representative studies from the testing of the simulation approach we performed, proving the absence of any opportunity cost involved by the control action.
KW - Distributed energy resources
KW - microgrid
KW - reactive power support
KW - renewable energy sources
KW - voltage control
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U2 - 10.1109/PSCC.2016.7540977
DO - 10.1109/PSCC.2016.7540977
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84986587176
T3 - 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2016
BT - 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2016
Y2 - 20 June 2016 through 24 June 2016
ER -