Asynchronous coordination of distributed energy resources for the provisioning of ancillary services

This paper analyzes the stability of asynchronous coordination protocols and studies their application to energy resource provisioning of ancillary services in power grids. First, we consider and analyze a protocol that can be used to asymptotically reach average consensus in an asynchronous mode of operation. Once we establish the convergence properties of this asynchronous consensus protocol, we demonstrate its effective ness by applying it towards energy resource provisioning of ancillary services in a power grid.