A New Secondary Control Approach for Voltage Regulation in DC Microgrids

In this paper the effect of secondary controller on voltage regulation in dc Micro-Grids (MGs) is studied. Basically, centralized or decentralized secondary controller has been employed to regulate the voltage drop raised by the primary controller. However, in the case of high capacity MGs and long feeders with much voltage drop on the line resistances, the conventional methods may not guarantee the voltage regulation on the load busses. Therefore, in addition to compensate the voltage drop of the primary controller, it is necessary to regulate the voltage of critical loads. In this paper, a new voltage regulation strategy is proposed to regulate the voltage of MG by employing the average voltage of identified busses, which are determined by the proposed modal analysis. Numerical steady state analysis and preliminary simulation results validate effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Furthermore, experimental results with a scaled down laboratory prototype are performed to demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach.