Distributed Tertiary Control of DC Microgrid Clusters
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- 20 April 2015
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- Vol. 31 (2), 1717-1733
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2015.2424672
Abstract
A distributed control method is proposed to handle power sharing among a cluster of dc microgrids. The hierarchical control structure of microgrids includes primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. While the load sharing among the sources within a dc microgrid is managed through primary and secondary controllers, a tertiary control level is required to provide the higher level load sharing among microgrids within a cluster. Power transfer between microgrids enables maximum utilization of renewable sources and suppresses stress and aging of the components, which improves its reliability and availability, reduces the maintenance costs, and expands the overall lifespan of the network. The proposed control mechanism uses a cooperative approach to adjust voltage set points for individual microgrids and, accordingly, navigate the power flow among them. Loading mismatch among neighbor microgrids is used in an updating policy to adjust voltage set point and mitigate such mismatches. While the voltage adjustment policy handles the load sharing among the microgrids within each cluster, at a lower level, each microgrid carries a communication network that is in contact with the secondary control system. It is this lower level network that propagates voltage set points across all sources within a microgrid. Load sharing and set point propagation are analytically studied for the higher and lower level controllers, respectively. Experimental studies on two cluster setups demonstrate excellent controller performance and validate its resiliency against converter failures and communication losses.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (ECCS-1405173)
- U.S. Office of Naval Research (N00014-14-1-0718)
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