Real time implementation of microgrid reconfiguration

Author

Shariatzadeh, F. ; Zamora, Ramon ; SRIVASTAVA, ANURAG K.

Author_Institution

Smart Grid Demonstration & Res. Investig. Lab. (SGDRIL), Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

4-6 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Reconfiguration is a control action including topology changes, load/ generation shedding and other measures to redirect power flow to the remaining unaffected loads in a microgrid. In this paper, genetic algorithm (GA) and graph theory based methodologies were used to reconfigure a network, satisfying the operational requirements and priorities of loads. Applications of the GA for reconfiguration were implemented in MATLAB and tested on 8-bus shipboard power system (SPS) and modified CERTS microgrids with consideration of distributed generation and islanding operation. Satisfactory simulations results were obtained for several possible test case scenarios in a real-time and non-real-time case study.

Keywords

distributed power generation; genetic algorithms; load flow; load shedding; 8-bus shipboard power system; MATLAB; control action; distributed generation; genetic algorithm; islanding operation; load-generation shedding; modified CERTS microgrids; nonreal-time case study; operational requirements; power flow; real time implementation; topology changes; Circuit faults; Generators; Genetic algorithms; Load flow; Load modeling; Real time systems; Reconfiguration; genetic algorithm (GA); graph theory; islanding; microgrid; shipboard power system (SPS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2011

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0417-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0418-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.2011.6025181

Filename

6025181