Distributed Event-Triggered Control for Reactive, Unbalanced, and Harmonic Power Sharing in Islanded AC Microgrids

For several reasons, particularly due to the mismatch in the feeder impedance, accurate power sharing in islanded microgrids is a challenging task. To get around this problem, a distributed event-triggered power sharing control strategy is proposed in this article. The suggested technique adaptively regulates the virtual impedances at both fundamental positive/negative sequence and harmonic frequencies and, therefore, accurately share the reactive, unbalanced, and harmonics powers among distributed generation units. The proposed method requires no information of feeder impedance and involves exchanging information among units at only event-triggered times, which reduces the communication burden without affecting the system performance. The stability and interevent interval are analyzed in this article. Finally, experimental results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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This article proposes a distributed event-triggered power sharing control strategy for accurate power sharing in islanded microgrids. The strategy adaptively regulates virtual impedances to accurately share reactive, unbalanced, and harmonics powers among distributed generation units, without requiring information on feeder impedance and reducing communication burden.