This paper treats the problem of primary and secondary control design in low-inertia power grids with mixed lines and a large amount of inverter-interfaced generation. A dynamic phasor model is developed that represents the electromagnetic and electromechanic dynamics of lines, inverters, synchronous machines and constant power loads. The model offers a straightforward way to combine white-, gr...

This study includes a multilevel cascaded inverter along with a control strategy. This proposed control scheme directs the inverter to support the grid under three phase balanced voltage sags and during one or two phase faults. Control of voltage between grid and Distributed Generation (DG) system is a challenging subject. Integrating DG with the grid is the fundamental element of this study wh...

Photo voltaic based distributed generation system has seen a wide spread interest in research community because of growing energy needs. For efficient distributed generation system, a PV cell is connected with a DC-DC converter and DC-AC inverter. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is used to extract maximum power from the PV cell. There are different MPPT algorithms such as perturb ...

Abstract Microgrids (MGs) are characterized by faster dynamics than conventional grid-connected distributions systems. This is in part due to the lack of inertia inverter-interfaced distributed energy resources such as photovoltaic and storage In this context, load considerably affects transient stability performance MGs, especially if disconnected from main grid. The aim paper analyze influenc...

Abstract Large‐scale penetration of renewable resource based generation will displace conventional synchronous machine‐based power generation. This lower the overall system inertia and result in short circuit levels at point connection (POC) resources. Renewable resources such as wind solar photovoltaic (PV) are interfaced to via electronic inverters. Operation inverter‐based equipment under lo...

Islanding detection is an essential function for safety and reliability in grid-connected distributed generation (DG) systems. Several methods for islanding detection are proposed, but most of them may fail under multi-source configurations, or they may produce important power quality degradation which gets worse with increasing DG penetration. This paper presents an active islanding detection ...

Nowadays, high penetration of Distributed Generations (DG)s in power systems caused some protection issues. One of these issues is unintentional islanding. As regards IEEE 1547 standard, this situation must be recognized immediately, and DG must be separated from the load in less than 2 seconds. In this paper, to detection of islanding in an inverter-based distributed generation, a new hybrid m...

This paper presents an improved control strategy for parallel inverters so as to better manage power sharing among the distributed generation units in a microgrid. The proposed control strategy combines both power and voltage control schemes implemented on the voltage source inverters which are used as power electronics interface systems for conversion of power generated by fuel cell and photov...