A Novel, Stable, and Economic Power Sharing Scheme for an Autonomous Microgrid in the Energy Internet

With a higher penetration of distributed generation in the power system, the application of microgrids is expected to increase dramatically in the future. This paper proposes a novel method to design optimal droop coefficients of dispatchable distributed energy resources for a microgrid in the Energ...

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Main Authors: Bingke Yan, Bo Wang, Lin Zhu, Hesen Liu, Yilu Liu, Xingpei Ji, Dichen Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-11-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/11/12338
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Summary:With a higher penetration of distributed generation in the power system, the application of microgrids is expected to increase dramatically in the future. This paper proposes a novel method to design optimal droop coefficients of dispatchable distributed energy resources for a microgrid in the Energy Internet considering the volatility of renewable energy generation, such as wind and photovoltaics. The uncertainties of renewable energy generation are modeled by a limited number of scenarios with high probabilities. In order to achieve stable and economical operation of a microgrid that is also suitable for plug-and-play distributed renewable energy and distributed energy storage devices, a multi-objective optimization model of droop coefficients compromising between operational cost and the integral of time-weighted absolute error criterion is developed. The optimization is solved by using a differential evolution algorithm. Case studies demonstrate that the economy and transient behavior of microgrids in the Energy Internet can both be improved significantly using the proposed method.
ISSN:1996-1073