Study on power oscillations suppression strategy of experimental microgrid based on power optimal control

Abstract

Abstract The experimental microgrid could provide a platform for operation and testing of the tested microgrid, so that the performance of the tested microgrid could be obtained before it was put into use. The microgrid had different structures, configurations, distributed generations and three-phase unbalanced load, so the voltage, current and power of the experimental microgrid would inevitably oscillate. First, the power oscillations mechanism of multi-source microgrid was deeply analysed, that was, the analytical relationship between active power pulsation and reactive power pulsation was derived and the influence of positive and negative sequence electrical quantities on power pulsation was revealed. Then, a power oscillations suppression strategy based on power optimal control was proposed. Finally, we built a multi-source microgrid simulation model and a power oscillations control system simulation model on MATLAB. The results showed that the control strategy proposed in this paper could significantly reduce the amplitude of power oscillations caused by unbalanced voltage and current. It could be verified that the control strategy was correct and effective.