electronic copies of this thesis document in whole and in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. ABSTRACT Over the last decade, penetration of microgrids containing distributed generation (DG) sources has increased in grid distribution systems. This requires the stable operation of microgrids when connected to the distribution system as well as during islanding. Islanding that is fa...

Microgrids are increasingly being considered to provide electricity for the expanding energy demand in the grid distribution network and grid isolated areas. However, the technical challenges associated with the operation and controls are immense. Management of dynamic power balances, power flow, and network voltage profiles imposes unique challenges in the context of microgrids. Stability of t...

A dynamic equivalent black-box model, based on Prony analysis is presented in this paper. The proposed model is suitable for dynamic studies of microgrids, considering changes in the active and reactive power, bus voltages, currents and frequency. The developed model is evaluated using simulation results obtained from a medium voltage microgrid and test measurements recorded in a low voltage mi...

System modeling and stability analysis is one of the most important issues of inverter-dominated microgrids. It is useful to determine the system stability and optimize the control parameters. The complete small signal models for the inverterdominated microgrids have been developed which are very accurate and could be found in literature. However, the modeling procedure will become very complex...

This article proposes a fault detection and protection strategy for islanded inverter-based microgrids (IBMGs). Reliable accurate is one of the main challenges in proliferation modern (MGs). Considering limited current voltage–frequency-controlled distributed energy resources (VF-IBDERs), more challenging IBMGs. In this regard, control scheme VF-IBDER with limiting plays an important role. Due ...