Adaptive Droop Control for Power Distribution of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in PV-Fed DC Microgrids
Ģirts Staņa and
Kaspars Kroičs ()
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Ģirts Staņa: Institute of Industrial Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Energy, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
Kaspars Kroičs: Institute of Industrial Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Energy, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-25
Abstract:
The increasing deployment of stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) power supply systems is driven by their capability to convert solar irradiance into electrical energy. A typical application of such systems is solar-powered water pumping. However, since solar irradiance varies throughout the day, the maximum power output of PV panels may be lower than the load demand. A viable solution to this issue is the integration of hybrid energy storage systems (HESSs) combining batteries and supercapacitors (SCs). In this work, HESS charging and discharging control strategies were developed based on adaptive droop control, which regulates the power distribution between the SC and the battery and limits DC grid voltage deviations. In the developed method, the SC droop coefficient is adaptively adjusted in a stepwise manner depending on the SC state of charge (SoC), while the battery droop coefficient remains constant. The performance of the proposed strategies was evaluated through simulations, showing SC-battery internal loss minimization by up to 50% compared with the scenario without droop control when the SC is discharged first, and only then is the battery engaged. Step response of the converter was investigated experimentally, showing less than a 2 ms response time, and no undesired influence from the proposed control method was detected.
Keywords: DC microgrid; energy storage; supercapacitors; energy management; droop control (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: 2025
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