Research on the Real-Time Distributed Economic Dispatch Strategy for Microgrids

Jian Le, Qian Zhou, Liangang Zhao and Yang Wang
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Jian Le: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Qian Zhou: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Liangang Zhao: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Yang Wang: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 20, 1-16

Abstract: A microgrid (MG) is one of the most efficient ways to cope with the grid-connection of a large number of small-sized distributed energy resources. This paper presents a consensus-based fully distributed economic dispatch (ED) strategy for MGs, with the aim of tackling the difficulties of existing algorithms in modeling network power loss and providing global information. The external power grid to which the MG connects is treated as a special power source called a virtual generator, and participates in the economic dispatch process. Taking the incremental cost of a power generator as the consensus variable, a distributed ED model was formulated based on consensus protocol and a sub-gradient-based optimization method for solving this model has been proposed. The convergence of the distributed ED system was investigated by utilizing matrix spectrum radius analysis theory. The effectiveness of the proposed strategy was verified by carrying out simulation under normal operation of the MG, both with and without the consideration of network power loss. Moreover, simulation results under several scenarios, including exchanged power order variation and distributed generation plug and play, are provided to demonstrate the robustness of the distributed ED strategy.

Keywords: consensus protocol; distributed economic dispatch; virtual power generator; distributed sub-gradient optimization; microgrid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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