Grid integration strategy for multifunctional grid front-end based distributed generation

In the future, distributed generation (DG) needs to be enabled to actively participate in control of grid voltage and frequency. An efficient grid integration strategy is required to interconnect the DG to conventional power systems and to improve the power quality and reliability (PQR) as well. The main task of the interconnected system is to control and maintain frequency and voltage of the power system in an acceptable range. This task has been currently operated using synchronous generators in many interconnected power systems. The power dispatch, frequency control and voltage control, power exchange and power optimization are already managed in conventional power supply systems. Therefore, the control strategy of the conventional power systems can be adapted to DG technologies through their interface unit to the grid, namely the inverter. The inverter is the primary interface unit between the energy source and the grid. This paper presents an adaptable and flexible control strategy for inverters as grid front-end based DG. The proposed control strategy can be a basic strategy to implement the DG system into existing conventional power systems.