Plug-and-play distributed algorithms for optimized power generation in a microgrid
Published in IEEE transactions on Smart grid, 2014
Abstract
This paper introduces distributed algorithms that share the power generation task in an optimized fashion among the several Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within a microgrid. We borrow certain concepts from communication network theory, namely Additive-Increase-Multiplicative-Decrease (AIMD) algorithms, which are known to be convenient in terms of communication requirements and network efficiency.We adapt the synchronized version of AIMD to minimize a cost utility function of interest in the framework of smart grids. We then implement the AIMD utility optimisation strategies in a realistic power network simulation in Matlab-OpenDSS environment, and we show that the performance is very close to the full-communication centralized case.
Citation
@article{crisostomi2014plug,
title={Plug-and-play distributed algorithms for optimized power generation in a microgrid},
author={Crisostomi, Emanuele and Liu, Mingming and Raugi, Marco and Shorten, Robert},
journal={IEEE transactions on Smart grid},
volume={5},
number={4},
pages={2145–2154},
year={2014},
publisher={IEEE}
}