Cyber-Attack Detection and Countermeasure for Distributed Electric Springs for Smart Grid Applications

With increasing installations of grid-connected power electronic converters in the distribution network, there is a new trend of using distributed control in a cyber layer to coordinate the operations of these power converters for improving power system stability. However, cyber-attacks remain a threat to such distributed control. This paper...

Economic Model Predictive Control for the Demand Side Management of Residential Microgrids

Traditional electric power systems with large centralized base load power plants have a limited ability to react rapidly to the high supply variability associated with the increasing deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs). Furthermore, with current power distribution networks primarily designed for unidirectional...

Experimental verification for seamless mode transitions of multiple microgrids using fuzzy-based droop controller

Continuous growth in electricity demand, increasing awareness for global warming and other en- vironmental issues have triggered attention to a new type of electricity generation-the so-called distributed generation consisting of various renewable energy sources. Despite the technological, economic and environmental benefits that the new...

From DC nano- and microgrids towards the universal DC distribution system - a plea to think further into the future

The traditional ac power system is challenged by the increased amount of distributed energy resources. Enormous changes and investments are necessary in order to achieve an ac smart grid capable of coping with the challenges introduced. In dc, solutions seem to be more straightforward since most of the distributed energy sources and most of the...