Real-time control of Distributed Energy Resources

Author

Zhu, Y. ; Tomsovic, K.

Author_Institution

Siemens PTI, Minnetonka, MN, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Recently, there has been great interest in the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) at the distribution level. DERs are potentially valuable providers of ancillary services such as load following and contingency reserve in distribution systems. This will require new control strategies for coordinating their system performance. One issue that has not been addressed sufficiently is the coordinated dispatch of large numbers of DERs under normal operation or system outage. In this paper, an AGC type control strategy is proposed and implemented for the real time control of DERs. Simulation results show that DERs are capable of providing load following and contingency reserve services under the proportional control mode or competitive control mode.

Keywords

automatic gain control; distributed power generation; power distribution control; AGC type control strategy; DER; ancillary services; automatic gain control; competitive control mode; coordinated dispatch; distributed energy resources; distribution level; proportional control mode; real-time control; Ancillary services; Automatic Generation Control; Competitive control; Contingency reserve; Distributed energy resource; Distribution system; Load following; Proportional control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6549-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2010.5590095

Filename

5590095