Advanced Techniques for smart micro grid

Introduction
Microgrids are modern, small-scale versions of the centralized electricity system. They
achieve specific local goals, such as reliability, carbon emission reduction, diversification of
energy sources, and cost reduction, established by the community being served. Like the bulk
power grid, smart microgrids generate, distribute, and regulate the flow of electricity to
consumers, but do so locally. Smart microgrids are an ideal way to integrate renewable
resources on the community level and allow for customer participation in the electricity
enterprise. They form the building blocks of the Perfect Power System.

Aim
Micro grids are power distribution networks in which users and generators are in close
proximity. Generation technologies include renewable micro sources such as photovoltaic
cells or wind turbines, as well as fossil fuel systems with efficient waste-heat recovery. The
integration of renewable micro sources along with the relatively low electrical inertia of such
systems introduces a considerable degree of uncertainty in the availability of generation.
Finding a distributed way to manage this uncertainty represents one of the major challenges
facing micro grid control.

Problem statement
Finding a distributed way to manage this uncertainty represents one of the major challenges
facing micro grid control using local micro source controllers.

Objectives
 Crafting a cyber-physical systems (CPS) initiative for the electrical power industry in
finding a way to reduce the uncertainties.
 Local micro source controllers that mimic the power-frequency and reactive power-
voltage droop characteristics used in controlling interconnected synchronous
machines methodology.

Methodology
 Two-level networked control architecture.