Secondary Droop for Frequency and Voltage Restoration in Microgrids

Inam Ullah Nutkani, Wang Peng, Frede Blaabjerg, Poh Chiang Loh

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Abstract

Droop based autonomous control offers several advantages such as communication independence, plug-n-play capability and enhanced reliability of the system. Despite these advantages, frequency and voltage of droop controlled microgrid varies with the load change which is one of the major drawback of the droop control. Presently, the frequency and voltage restoration in microgrid is achieved through secondary control using low bandwidth communication links. This paper presents secondary-droop based frequency and voltage restoration method which is fully autonomous and independent of communication links. With the proposed method, the microgrid frequency and voltage can be restored back to nominal value without affecting the power sharing performance of the generation sources. The proposed scheme performance has been validated in simulation for several cases of active and reactive power load conditions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'15 ECCE-Europe)
Number of pages7
PublisherIEEE Press
Publication dateSept 2015
Pages1-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2015
Event17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE-ECCE Europe 2015 - Centre International de Conférence Genève (CICG), 17 rue Varembé CH . 1211 Genève 20, Geneva, Switzerland
Duration: 8 Sept 201510 Sept 2015

Conference

Conference17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE-ECCE Europe 2015
LocationCentre International de Conférence Genève (CICG), 17 rue Varembé CH . 1211 Genève 20
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityGeneva
Period08/09/201510/09/2015

Keywords

  • Microgrid
  • Droop control
  • Distributed generation
  • Secondary control
  • Restoration

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