A self sustained microgrid realized using coordinated control mechanism

Rural India is a potential target for the development of microgrids as there are up to 250 million people who are still not connected to the grid. In many places even though they are connected to the grid they have limited access to power as they face 16 hours of power outages every day. In this scenario the Microgrid technology is taking its turn in India through small startups and enterprises. However the viable options of a combined Microgrid where wind and PV resources are connected and coordinated to achieve power quality taking into account their intermittency with the support of an Electric Vehicle is extensively not explored. In the proposed work a simple coordinated control of the master controllers of the DER's is presented which is an appealing and economically a feasible solution for providing reliable power to the remote locations. The master controller is capable of scheduling the usage of the DER's and ESS in an intelligent fashion which in turn smoothens the intermittency due to cloud cover and wind speed fluctuations. PSCAD/EMTDC is used for simulation studies and the results obtained hence will help in the deployment of efficient microgrids.