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Concurrent Voltage Control and Dispatch of Active Distribution Networks by means of Smart Transformer and Storage

Gao, Xiang
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Sossan, Fabrizio  
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Christakou, Konstantina  
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2018
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Dispatching active distribution networks is expected to play an important role in the smart grid technologies. Voltage control is also starting to be widely proposed to avoid voltage violations in the electrical grid. The integration of the storage in the so called smart transformer (ST), which is a solid state transformer with control and communication functionalities, can help combine both the services. The added value of such a configuration is that it allows the full decoupling of the reactive power flows between the medium voltage (MV) and low voltage (LV) networks. We show the augmented flexibility of such a configuration by proposing a control strategy where, i, the storage system is used to achieve dispatched-by-design operation of the LV network active power flow, and, ii, the two ST power converters to control the voltage in both the MV and LV grid on a best effort basis. The control strategy is validated by simulations using the IEEE 34-node MV test feeder and the Cigre LV reference network. Moreover, control performance is benchmarked against a conventional network setup, where the BESS is connected to the LV network through a DC/AC power converter and the ST transformer is replaced by a conventional transformer.

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DOI
10.1109/TIE.2017.2772181
Author(s)
Gao, Xiang
Sossan, Fabrizio  
Christakou, Konstantina  
Liserre, Marco
Paolone, Mario  
Date Issued

2018

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume

65

Issue

8

Start page

6657

End page

6666

Subjects

Optimal control

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Battery energy storage systems

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Renewable energy

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Smart transformer

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Voltage control

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Dispatch-by-design

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epfl-smartgrids

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