A Review on Overvoltages in Microgrid

Now microgrid has aroused increasing attention due to energy sustainable development and the development of distributed generations (DG), such as micro-turbines, gas turbines, wind power, photovoltaic and fuel cells. This paper introduces the basic structure of microgrid and summarizes the overvoltages that can occur in microgrid, including ground fault overvoltages, resonant overvoltages, overvoltage related to voltage regulation, switching overvoltages of inner microgrid, transfer overvoltages from distribution network (such as lightning and switching overvoltages). By analysis, this paper obtains the following conclusion: resonant overvoltages and lightning stroke transfer overvoltages are the most serious for microgrid.