Residential microgrid model for disaster recovery operations

Microgrids hold great potential to improve the reliability of modern power systems, to foster the integration of renewable sources, and to enable smart grid development. In this paper, we design a microgrid that provides all of these benefits. The proposed microgrid serves a notional residential area located in South Florida, which is a region that is annually exposed to hurricanes. It meets all the design requirements raised by the environmental attributes of that region. It has been modeled in MATLAB for energy analysis and in PSCAD for dynamic simulations. By combining novel inverter control and central control from previous research, it has been demonstrated that the proposed microgrid can support sustained islanding mode of operation before, during, and after a major storm.