Microgrid Control Systems: A Practical Framework [In My View]

The growing interest in microgrids has brought a great level of focus, creativity, and investment in the development and commercialization of microgrid control systems. The primary value propositions for microgrids are improving reliability and resiliency, enabling renewable generation integration at a higher penetration level than normal, enhancing efficiency, and the economic dispatch of distributed generation to reduce operation and maintenance costs and create new revenue streams (for instance, through participation in the energy or ancillary service markets). All of these efforts emphasize the need for a microgrid control system that can operate the system autonomously in a coordinated fashion to achieve predefined performance goals.