Open AccessPower sharing in parallel inverters with different types of loads
Author(s) -
Ketabi Abbas,
Rajamand Sahba Sadat,
Shahidehpour Mohammad
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
iet generation, transmission and distribution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.92
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1751-8695
pISSN - 1751-8687
DOI - 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.0570
Subject(s) - power (physics) , load sharing , computer science , electrical engineering , reliability engineering , parallel computing , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Microgrids are used widely in electric power systems for enhancing the power system operation in both grid‐connected and island modes. One of the main problems with microgrid operations in power systems is maintaining the microgrid voltage and frequency within permissible ranges and sharing microgrid loads among participating distribution generations (DGs) in an island mode. The droop control method will pose a degraded performance when feeder impedances of DGs are different. In this study, a new control method based on the virtual impedance and the compensating voltage is proposed and the simulation results show that this method combined with the droop control will offer a balanced power sharing among DGs with negligible voltage and frequency drops. Here both single‐bus and multi‐bus microgrids with distributed loads have been considered. The simulation results are based on the MATLAB Simulink which shows that the proposed method has a good load sharing performance among DGs with varying feeder impedances and droop gains.