Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources in Microgrids:
Optimisation, control, and hardware-in-the-loop validation provides a
structured overview of research into techniques for managing microgrids
with distributed energy resources (DERs). The DERs including distributed
generators, energy storage systems, and flexible loads are posing both
challenges and opportunities to microgrids' security, planning,
operation, and control. Advanced operation and control techniques are
needed to coordinate these components in the microgrids and maintain
power quality, as well as keeping the system economically feasible.
This book is for researchers and students in the area of smart grids,
power engineering, and control engineering, as well as for advanced
students, transmission network and grid operators. It focuses on
cutting-edge techniques for secure, economic, and robust operation and
control of microgrids. Effective coordination of DERs on both temporal
and spatial scales are introduced in detail. Topics covered include
comprehensive mathematical models of DERs and microgrids, sizing and
siting of DERs under uncertainties, stochastic and robust optimisation
for active and reactive power dispatch of DERs in microgrids,
distributed coordinated control, and hardware-in-the-loop tests for
validation of control algorithms.