Architecture, Control, and Implementation of Networked Microgrids for Future Distribution Systems

Microgrid (MG) is a small-scale, self-sufficient power system that accommodates various distributed energy resources (DERs), controllable loads, and future distribution systems. Networked microgrids (NMGs) are clusters of MGs, which physically interconnected functionally coordinated to enhance systems in terms economics, resilience, reliability. This paper introduces the architecture control NMGs including nanogrid (NG) MG. To accommodate variable DERs NMGs, master strategies adopted manage high penetration DERs, where focuses on economic operation, while reliability resilience through active sharing voltage frequency regulation. The initial practices NG, MG, NMG networked Illinois Institute Technology (IIT) campus microgrid (ICM) Bronzeville community (BCM) U.S. presented. applications illustrated for ICM-BCM show their benefits