Control strategy for flexible microgrid based on parallel line-interactive UPS systems

Josep M. Guerrero; Juan C. Vásquez; Jóse Matas; Miguel Castilla; Lui García de Vicuna

doi:10.1109/TIE.2008.2009274

Control strategy for flexible microgrid based on parallel line-interactive UPS systems

Josep M. Guerrero^*, Juan C. Vásquez, Jóse Matas, Miguel Castilla, Lui García de Vicuna

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Abstract

In this paper, the control strategy for a flexible microgrid is presented. The microgrid presented here consists of several line-interactive uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems connected in parallel. The control technique is based on the droop method to avoid critical communications among UPS units. Thus, a flexible microgrid is obtained to operate in either grid-connected or islanded mode. A small-signal analysis is presented in order to analyze the system stability, which gives rules to design the main control parameters. Simulation and experimental results are presented, showing the feasibility of the proposed controller.

Original language	English
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume	56
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	726-736
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0278-0046
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2008.2009274
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Distributed generation (DG)
Droop method
Microgrids
Uninterruptible power systems

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