Virtual Power Plant enabled Co-ordinated Frequency Control of a grid connected Independent Hybrid Microgrid using Firefly algorithm

Rubina Khan, Nilutpal Gogoi, Joydev Barman, Abdul Latif, Dulal Chandra Das

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    Abstract

    This paper investigates the stabilization of frequency of a grid connected microgrid in presence of solar photovoltaic (PV), wind turbine (WT) and biodiesel electric generator (BDEG) as electric source and heat pump (HP), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) as controllable load along with a critical load. Virtual power plant (VPP) coordinated control concept has been applied where proportional-integral (PI) or proportional-integral-derivate (PID) controller are used with BDEG, HP, PHEV to adjust the output power as decided by the VPP coordinator. A metaheuristic algorithm, Firefly Algorithm (FFA) is used to tune the controllers. The Microgrid is stimulated for step variations in the PV and WT generation and critical load. The comparative analysis of two metaheuristic algorithms (PSO and FFA) optimized PI/PID controllers have been investigated in terms of peak deviations, settling time and objective function. The proposed system is simulated under MATLAB-Simulink environment and shows that FFA optimized PID controller is better than rest one.

    Original languageBritish English
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 2019 IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2019
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages795-800
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781728102979
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 2019
    Event2019 IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2019 - Kolkata, India
    Duration: 7 Jun 20199 Jun 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of 2019 IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2019

    Conference

    Conference2019 IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2019
    Country/TerritoryIndia
    CityKolkata
    Period7/06/199/06/19

    Keywords

    • Firefly algorithm (FFA)
    • Frequency control
    • Hybrid micro-grid (HMG)
    • Virtual power plant (VPP)

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