In this paper a novel distributed control algorithm for current sharing and voltage regulation in Direct Current (DC) microgrids is proposed. The DC microgrid is composed of several Distributed Generation units (DGus), interfaced with Buck converters, and current loads. The considered model permits an arbitrary network topology and is affected by unknown load demand and modelling uncertainties....

With the progressive exhaustion of fossil energy and the enhanced awareness of environmental protection, more attention is being paid to plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Inappropriate siting and sizing of PHEV parking lots (PL) could have negative effects on the development of PHEV, the layout of the city traffic network, and the convenience of PHEVs’ drivers as well as lead to an incre...

Demand response management has become one of the key enabling technologies for smart grids. Motivated by the increasing demand response incentives offered by service operators, more customers are subscribing to various demand response programs. However, with growing customer participation, the problem of determining the optimal loads to be curtailed in a microgrid during contingencies within a ...

Smart Microgrids bring numerous challenges, including how to leverage the potential benefits of renewable energy sources while maintaining acceptable levels of reliability in the power infrastructure. One way to tackle this challenging problem is to use intelligent storage systems (batteries and supercapacitors). Charging and discharging them at the proper time by exploiting the variablity of t...

This paper presents an algorithm for the microgrid planning as an alternative to the co-optimization of generation and transmission expansion planning in electric power systems. The integration of microgrids in distribution systems will offer a decentralized control of local resources for satisfying the network reliability and the power quality required by local loads. The objective in this pap...

To harness the potential of CMPs for scalable, energy-efficient performance in general-purpose computers, the Apple-CORE project has co-designed a general machine model and concurrency control interface with dedicated hardware support for concurrency management across multiple cores. Its SVP interface combines dataflow synchronisation with imperative programming, towards the efficient use of pa...

Active rectifier loads have major effects on the stability of microgrids, therefore the modeling and analysis of such loads become more popular, recently. In this paper, a new linear state-space model for inverter-based microgrids (IBMGs) as well as active loads is proposed and then the model is corrected using a time-step simulation. The proposed simulation drives the eigenvalues and transient...

Recent communication, computation, and technology advances coupled with climate change concerns have transformed the near future prospects of electricity transmission, and, more notably, distribution systems and microgrids. Distributed resources (wind and solar generation, combined heat and power) and flexible loads (storage, computing, EV, HVAC) make it imperative to increase investment and im...

Due to limited energy storage units in microgrids, how to regulate peak demand is one of the main challenges. Thus, researchers propose different techniques to flatten peak demand in individual residential buildings. However, if each home in the grid flattens peak demand only with its own power consumption information, it is possible that peak demand of the microgrid would not be flattened but ...

A non-centralized model predictive control (MPC) scheme for solving an economic dispatch problem of electrical networks is proposed in this paper. The consists two parts. first part event-triggered repartitioning method that splits the network into a fixed number non-overlapping sub-systems (microgrids). objective procedure to obtain self-sufficient microgrids, i.e., those can meet their local ...