Distributed control of reactive power and storage in microgrids

Andrés Cortés and Sonia Martínez
Proceedings of 2014 MTNS, Groningen, The Netherlands, July 2014

Abstract:

A dual decomposition approach for the distributed control of both reactive power and storage control in microgrids is presented. This approach considers physical constraints inherent to storage systems, as well as voltage regulation constraints. The objective is to minimize a cost function consisting on a linear combination of the overall active power cost over a finite time horizon, and the transmission losses over the microgrid. A distributed algorithm is introduced for which we present the corresponding convergence result. In addition, we introduce a novel algorithm for the distributed voltage prediction over a time window. Simulations demonstrate the algorithm performance on a particular microgrid case.

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Bib-tex entry:

@InProceedings{AIC-SM:14-mtns},
author = {Andr\'es Cort\'es and S. Mart{\'\i}nez},
booktitle = {2014 MTNS},
title = {Distributed Control of Reactive Power and Storage in Microgrids},
month = {July},
year = {2014},
address ={Groningen, The Netherlands},
pages = {563--570}
}