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T1 Distributed Control for a Microgrid Cluster: Implementation and Experimental Validation
A1 Carrasco González, David
A1 Sarrias Mena, Raúl
A1 Horrillo Quintero, Pablo
A1 Hosseini, Ehsan
A1 Llorens Iborra, Francisco
A1 Fernández Ramírez, Luis Miguel
A2 Ingeniería Eléctrica
A2 Ingeniería en AutomáticaElectrónica, Arquitectura y Redes de Computadores
K1 Control agent
K1 Distributed control
K1 Microgrid clusters
K1 Real-time simulation
AB In response to growing energy demands and concerns about climate change, microgrid clusters (MGCs) are gaining widespread attention. Their ability to integrate technologies for energy consumption, generation, and storage in AC, DC or a compound of both offer a high degree of flexibility and resiliency. This research introduces a new control strategy for an MGC composed of two MGs interconnected to a local grid via a point of common coupling. The first one is a DC MG comprising an ultracapacitor (UC), wind turbine (WT), DC loads and hydrogen system. The second is an AC MG with abattery bank, AC loads and photovoltaic (PV) generator. The control strategy employs local controllers for each device and distributed control via two control agents, coordinating the power distribution among the energy storage systems (ESSs) of the MGC. This system is tested and validated on a real-time experimental setup, using two Raspberry Pi microcontrollers and an OPAL-RT unit, under different working conditions. The results obtained in this work show that the control strategy implemented in the MGC works correctly.
PB IEEE
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34004
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34004
LA eng
NO This work was partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, FEDER, UE (Grant PID2021- 123633OB-C32 supported by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-may-2026