Economic-Driven Hierarchical Voltage Regulation of Incremental Distribution Networks: A Cloud-Edge Collaboration Based Perspective

In this article, a cloud-edge collaboration based control framework is proposed for the voltage regulation and economic operation in incremental distribution networks (IDN). The voltage regulation and economic operation, usually considered in separated aspects, can be integrated in a hierarchical control method by coordinating the active power and reactive power of distributed generators (DGs) and distributed storages (DSs) in an “active” mode. Promising the voltage security of the IDN, the upper level multiobjective optimization is formulated to maximize the consumption of the DGs, moreover, the lower level model predictive control (MPC) aims to regulate the dynamics of the DGs and DSs based on the established state space model. Time delay in the downstream channel is considered due to the open environment of the proposed control framework, which can be eliminated by using the PCM derived from the MPC considering model uncertainty. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the validity and robustness of the proposed method.