Microgrid Service Restoration The Role of Plugged-In Electric Vehicles

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Clara Gouveia (Author) Other; Carlos Leal Moreira (Author) FEUP; Joao Abel P Pecas Lopes (Author) FEUP; Diogo Varajao (Author) Other; Rui Esteves Araujo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Vol. 7 No. 4

Pages: 26-41

ISSN: 1932-4529

Publisher: IEEE

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 40 Citations

Scopus - 50 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-006-J7S

DOI: 10.1109/mie.2013.2272337

Resumo (PT): The development of the microgrid (MG) concept endows distribution networks with increased reliability and resilience and offers an adequate management and control solution for massive deployment of microgeneration and electric vehicles (EVs). Within an MG, local generation can be exploited to launch a local restoration procedure following a blackout. EVs are flexible resources that can also be actively included in the restoration procedure, thus contributing to the improvement of MG operating conditions. The feasibility of MG service restoration, including the active participation of EVs, is demonstrated in this article through extensive numerical simulation and experimentation in a laboratorial setup. Meeting reliability requirements in electric power distribution systems characterized by a high penetration of distributed energy resources, load variability, and mass deployment of plugged-in EVs is becoming a challenging task [1]. To ensure reliability, security, and quality of supply, innovative decentralized control architectures should be developed at the distribution level, aiming at higher system observability and controllability while assuring better control and management performances. The materialization of this scenario is in line with smart grid development, in which the MG plays a central role

Abstract (EN): The development of the microgrid (MG) concept endows distribution networks with increased reliability and resilience and offers an adequate management and control solution for massive deployment of microgeneration and electric vehicles (EVs). Within an MG, local generation can be exploited to launch a local restoration procedure following a blackout. EVs are flexible resources that can also be actively included in the restoration procedure, thus contributing to the improvement of MG operating conditions. The feasibility of MG service restoration, including the active participation of EVs, is demonstrated in this article through extensive numerical simulation and experimentation in a laboratorial setup. © 2007-2011 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16