A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks

Community Energy Storage Systems (CESSs) emerge as an innovative way to integrate batteries into Low Voltage (LV) and Medium Voltage (MV) distribution networks to provide ancillary services and improve the quality of energy received by the end user. However, since CESSs are still emerging technologi...

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Main Authors: Hernan Yepes-Fernandez, Mauricio Restrepo, Adriana Arango-Manrique
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9940955/
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Mauricio Restrepo
Adriana Arango-Manrique
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description Community Energy Storage Systems (CESSs) emerge as an innovative way to integrate batteries into Low Voltage (LV) and Medium Voltage (MV) distribution networks to provide ancillary services and improve the quality of energy received by the end user. However, since CESSs are still emerging technologies, there is much research space in this field for proposing innovative and economic control algorithms for such devices. Thus, this paper presents a study of four control strategies applied to an MV distribution network, i.e., peak shaving, line losses control, line congestion reduction, and system voltage control, through an Aggregated Community Energy Storage System (ACESS), which is represented as the sum of multiple CESSs connected in LV systems, viewed from MV side. The proposed strategies are based on Model Predictive Control (MPC), a technique that, using the future demand forecast data, calculates the dispatch of ACESS. The results show, with respect to the base case, an improvement between 12.8% and 15.1% for the line losses control strategy, a reduction of 31.5% on the maximum demand for the peak shaving control strategy, a maximum lowering of 12% on the currents of some lines for the congestion control strategy, and an enhancement of 0.15% for the voltage control strategy. Moreover, for estimating the service lifetime of the ACESS after applying the control algorithms, the Rainflow Counting Algorithm (RCA) is used, exhibiting that, regardless of the control strategy, the degradation is inversely proportional to the storage capacity.
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spelling doaj.art-12f6ed938d81477e85eb3b368d3acc412022-12-22T04:14:45ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-011011932111933210.1109/ACCESS.2022.32202239940955A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution NetworksHernan Yepes-Fernandez0Mauricio Restrepo1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2856-4559Adriana Arango-Manrique2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5680-3505Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, ColombiaDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, ColombiaDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, ColombiaCommunity Energy Storage Systems (CESSs) emerge as an innovative way to integrate batteries into Low Voltage (LV) and Medium Voltage (MV) distribution networks to provide ancillary services and improve the quality of energy received by the end user. However, since CESSs are still emerging technologies, there is much research space in this field for proposing innovative and economic control algorithms for such devices. Thus, this paper presents a study of four control strategies applied to an MV distribution network, i.e., peak shaving, line losses control, line congestion reduction, and system voltage control, through an Aggregated Community Energy Storage System (ACESS), which is represented as the sum of multiple CESSs connected in LV systems, viewed from MV side. The proposed strategies are based on Model Predictive Control (MPC), a technique that, using the future demand forecast data, calculates the dispatch of ACESS. The results show, with respect to the base case, an improvement between 12.8% and 15.1% for the line losses control strategy, a reduction of 31.5% on the maximum demand for the peak shaving control strategy, a maximum lowering of 12% on the currents of some lines for the congestion control strategy, and an enhancement of 0.15% for the voltage control strategy. Moreover, for estimating the service lifetime of the ACESS after applying the control algorithms, the Rainflow Counting Algorithm (RCA) is used, exhibiting that, regardless of the control strategy, the degradation is inversely proportional to the storage capacity.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9940955/Ancillary servicesbatteriescommunity energy storage systems (CESSs)degradationmodel predictive control (MPC)
spellingShingle Hernan Yepes-Fernandez
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A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
IEEE Access
Ancillary services
batteries
community energy storage systems (CESSs)
degradation
model predictive control (MPC)
title A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
title_full A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
title_fullStr A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
title_full_unstemmed A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
title_short A Study on Control Strategies for Aggregated Community Energy Storage Systems in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
title_sort study on control strategies for aggregated community energy storage systems in medium voltage distribution networks
topic Ancillary services
batteries
community energy storage systems (CESSs)
degradation
model predictive control (MPC)
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9940955/
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