A study on active power and frequency response in microgrid

Author

Nguyen Khanh Loc ; Dae Geun Jin ; Dong-Jun Won

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

19-23 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper considers a multiple-DG microgrid connected to the main grid at a point of common coupling (PCC) via a static switch. The DGs in the microgrid can be connected in series and parallel as well. Each DG can also be operated in unit power control (UPC) mode or feeder flow control (FFC) mode. In this paper the active power and frequency response in the microgrid with respect to different configurations (parallel/series) and different control modes (UPC/FFC) is investigated. Four possible cases are considered: case 1) Series-FFC configuration: the DGs are connected in series and the DGs´ control modes are FFC; case 2) Series-UPC configuration: the DGs are connected in series and DGs´ control modes are UPC; case 3) Parallel-UPC configuration: the DGs are connected in parallel and DGs´ control mode are UPC; case 4) Parallel-FFC configuration: the DGs are connected in parallel and DGs´ control modes are UPC. According to the analysis, a comparison between the four configurations is presented, advantages and disadvantages of each configuration is then achieved.

Keywords

distributed power generation; frequency response; load flow control; power control; power grids; DG control mode; active power; feeder flow control mode; frequency response; multiple-DG microgrid; parallel-UPC configuration; point of common coupling; series FFC configuration; series-UPC configuration; static switch; unit power control mode; Control systems; Frequency control; Frequency response; Load management; Power control; Power generation; Power systems; Distributed energy; Distributed generation; Microgrid; Power sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech, 2011 IEEE Trondheim

Conference_Location

Trondheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8419-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8417-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2011.6019210

Filename

6019210