Review on the Microgrid Concept, Structures, Components, Communication Systems, and Control Methods

Maysam Abbasi, Ehsan Abbasi, Li Li (), Ricardo P. Aguilera, Dylan Lu and Fei Wang
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Maysam Abbasi: School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia
Ehsan Abbasi: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 5166616471, Iran
Li Li: School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia
Ricardo P. Aguilera: School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia
Dylan Lu: School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia
Fei Wang: Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-36

Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the microgrid (MG) concept, including its definitions, challenges, advantages, components, structures, communication systems, and control methods, focusing on low-bandwidth (LB), wireless (WL), and wired control approaches. Generally, an MG is a small-scale power grid comprising local/common loads, energy storage devices, and distributed energy resources (DERs), operating in both islanded and grid-tied modes. MGs are instrumental to current and future electricity network development, such as a smart grid, as they can offer numerous benefits, such as enhanced network stability and reliability, increased efficiency, an increased integration of clean and renewable energies into the system, enhanced power quality, and so forth, to the increasingly growing and complicated power systems. By considering several objectives in both islanded and grid-tied modes, the development of efficient control systems for different kinds of MGs has been investigated in recent years. Among these control methods, LB communication (LBcom)-based control methods have attracted much attention due to their low expenses, recent developments, and high stability. This paper aims to shed some light on different aspects, a literature review, and research gaps of MGs, especially in the field of their control layers, concentrating on LBcom-based control methods.

Keywords: microgrid; microgrid control; centralized; distributed; hierarchical; wireless communication; low-bandwidth communication; wired communication; communication network (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: 2023
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