Publications related to Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Examples

Frequency Regulation with Storage: On Losses and Profits

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Low-carbon societies will need to store vast amounts of electricity to balance intermittent generation from wind and solar energy, for example, through frequency regulation. Here, we derive an analytical solution to the decision-making problem of storage o ...

2024

Cross-code verification of non-neutral ABL and single wind turbine wake modelling in LES

Fernando Porté Agel, Marwa Souaiby

Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow with the actuator disc (AD) for turbine modelling is a widely used method of simulating wind farm flows. Hence, it is important to understand the requirements for achieving a good compar ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2023

Data-driven Power Electronic Converter Control Design in Power System Applications

Seyed Sohail Madani

In recent years, power systems have evolved in physical and cyber-physical layers. In the physical layer, the changes are motivated by environmental concerns resulting in the integration of new types of generation/demand/storage into the grid. These integr ...

EPFL2022

Bayesian Methods for the Identification of Distribution Networks

Jean-Sébastien Hubert Brouillon, Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata

The increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, especially at the distribution level, necessitates advanced planning and optimisation methodologies contingent on the knowledge of the admittance matrix, capturing the topology and line param ...

IEEE2021

Experimental Validation of the Real-Time Control of an Electric-Vehicle Charging Station

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy, Roman Rudnik

The high penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) charging stations (CSs), together with the progressive availability of distributed energy resources, increases the risk of grid overloading and power-quality degradation. Real-time control has been advocated ...

IEEE2021

Performance assessment of Synchronous Condensers vs Voltage Source Converters providing grid-forming functions

Mario Paolone

Having sufficient grid-forming sources is one of the necessary conditions to guarantee the stability in a power system hosting a very large share of inverter-based generation. The grid-forming function has been historically fulfilled by synchronous machine ...

IEEE2021

Performance assessment of grid-forming and grid-following converter-interfaced battery energy storage systems on frequency regulation in low-inertia power grids

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Zhao Yuan, Antonio Zecchino, Yihui Zuo

Power systems with large shares of converter-interfaced renewables may be characterised by low grid inertia due to the lack of frequency containment provided by synchronous generators. Battery energy storage systems (BESSs), which can adjust their power ou ...

2021

Optimal Linear Controller for Minimizing DC Voltage Oscillations in MMC-Based Offshore Multiterminal HVDC Grids

Luca Furieri, Maryam Kamgarpour

The paper aims at minimizing DC voltage oscillations in offshore multiterminal high-voltage direct current (HVDC) grids based on modular multilevel converters (MMCs). The DC voltage stability is a crucial factor in multiterminal HVDC networks since it is a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

SCCER JA-RED - A list of possible ancillary services for enhanced grid operation and implementation of the most effective ones at the RE demo site - Deliverable 1.2.3

Luc Girardin, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Luise Middelhauve

There is a need by distribution system operators and power suppliers to propose ancillary services to enhanced grid operation allowing the optimal deployment of photovoltaic panels, cogeneration technologies and distributed storage. This deliverable theref ...

2020

Cooperative energy management of a community of smart-buildings: A Blockchain approach

Maher Kayal, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Demand Response (DR) is progressively moving from a centralized, unidirectional structure to a set of advanced decentralized mechanisms that better balance distributed supply and demand. This paper presents a decentralized cooperative DR framework to manag ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Aqueous electrolytes for high-voltage batteries and supercapacitors

David Reber

Lithium-ion batteries are widely implemented as energy storage devices due to their high energy density and low cost. They enabled modern portable electronics and electric ve-hicles, and are key to manage the integration of intermittent renewable electrici ...

EPFL2020

Real-Time Control of an Electric Vehicle Charging Station While Tracking an Aggregated Power Setpoint

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Cong Wang, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara

We consider the problem of controlling the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to a single charging station that follows an aggregated power setpoint from a main controller of the local distribution grid. To cope with volatile resources such as l ...

2020

The role of distributed energy systems in European energy transition

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Louis Marc Bruno Delannoy, Dasaraden Mauree, Salil Puri

This study presents a comprehensive analysis on the energy demand and supply of typical European city centers for present time and 2050 horizon according to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) climatic scenario A1B. Building and urban arc ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Stability Analysis of Primary Plug-and-Play and Secondary Leader-Based Controllers for DC Microgrid Clusters

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Michele Tucci, Andrea Martinelli, Renke Han

In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical control scheme for microgrid (MG) clusters, given by the interconnection of atomic dc MGs with ZIP loads, each composed by both grid-forming and grid-feeding converters. In the primary level, we develop a new Pl ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Optimal placement of inertia and primary control in high voltage power grids

Philippe René Joseph Jacquod, Laurent Vincent Pagnier

The energy transition's ultimate goal is to meet energy demand from human activities sustainably. Accordingly, the penetration of new renewable energy sources (RES) such as photovoltaic panels and wind turbines is increasing in most power grids. In their c ...

IEEE2019

Technologies for Integration of Large-Scale Distributed Generation and Volatile Loads in Distribution Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Jagdish Prasad Achara

As fossil fuel reserves are limited in stock and there is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprint, distribution grids urgently need to move towards heavy use of local and distributed generation of electricity using renewable energy sources. Another p ...

2018

Electrical hubs: An effective way to integrate non-dispatchable renewable energy sources with minimum impact to the grid

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree

A paradigm change in energy system design tools, energy market, and energy policy is required to attain the target levels in renewable energy integration and in minimizing pollutant emissions in power generation. Integrating non-dispatchable renewable ener ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Plug-and-play Voltage Stabilization in Inverter-interfaced Microgrids via a Robust Control Strategy

Alireza Karimi

This paper proposes a decentralized control strategy for the voltage regulation of islanded inverter-interfaced micro- grids. We show that an inverter-interfaced microgrid under plug- and-play (PnP) functionality of distributed generations (DGs) can be cas ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Hydrodynamics of Francis turbine operation at deep part load condition

Keita Yamamoto

The electrical energy production from New and Renewable Energy (NRE) sources have become increasingly important in the past decades. However, intermittent electrical generation from NRE sources due to their stochastic nature often prevents stable power out ...

EPFL2017

SCCER JA-RED - Description of the multi-energy demonstration system in the RE demo site - Deliverable 1.2.1

Luc Girardin, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Hervé Tommasi

In the optic of providing guidelines for the optimal integration of renewable energy in a connected multi-energy context, this report presents EPFL - IPESE and EPFL - PV-lab’s common work on the initial assessment of Romande Energie (RE) demonstration site ...

2017