Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources in Microgrids: Optimisation, Control, and Hardware-In-The-Loop Validation

Coordination and Optimization of Distributed Energy Resources in Microgrids provides a structured overview of research into techniques for managing microgrids with distributed energy resources (DERs). Microgrids need to be able to manage DERs, combined cooling, heating and power units, energy storage systems, and flexible loads. Integrating these elements is posing challenges to microgrids' security, planning, operation, and control. Advanced operation and control techniques are needed to coordinate these components in the microgrids and maintain power quality, as well as keeping the system economically feasible.

This book is for researchers and students in the area of smart grids, power engineering, and control engineering, as well as for advanced students, transmission network and grid operators. It focuses on cutting-edge techniques for secure, economic, and robust operation and control of microgrids. Effective coordination of DERs on both temporal and spatial scales are introduced in detail. Topics covered include comprehensive mathematical models of DERs and microgrids, sizing and siting of DERs under uncertainties, robust optimization for active and reactive power dispatch of DERs in microgrids, distributed coordinated control, and hardware-in-the-loop tests for validation of control algorithms.