Title
On the Interplay of Distributed Power Loss Reduction and Communication in Low Voltage Microgrids.
Abstract
Distributed generators (DGs), coupled with suitable control and communication infrastructures, are expected to play a key role in improving the efficiency of electricity grids. In this paper, we focus on low-voltage and single-phase microgrids exploring the interplay of distributed power loss reduction and communication. We select representative power-loss reduction algorithms from the state of the art and provide design rules for the required networking strategies in the presence of lossy communication links, assessing the impact of communication as well as electrical grid features. Toward this end, we devise a novel statistical cosimulation (electricity grid, communication, and control) framework that faithfully mimics the characteristics of real-world microgrids in terms of communication and grid topologies, power demand, and distributed generation from solar sources. Our numerical results highlight the role of communication procedures and the differences among the selected optimization techniques for power loss reduction, assessing their convergence rate and quantifying the impact of communication failures, line impedance estimation error, communication and electricity grid topologies, network size, and number of DGs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TII.2015.2509251
IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed power generation,statistical analysis,DG,communication procedures,distributed generation,distributed generators,distributed power loss reduction,grid topologies,line impedance estimation error,lossy communication links,low voltage microgrids,networking strategies,power demand,single-phase microgrids,solar sources,statistical cosimulation framework,Computer simulation,cogeneration,distributed power generation,microgrids,numerical simulation,power system simulation
Distributed power,Lossy compression,Electricity,Computer science,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Control engineering,Network topology,Distributed generation,Low voltage,Electrical grid,Grid
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1551-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Riccardo Bonetto1285.67
Michele Rossi222826.33
Stefano Tomasin31145102.92
Michele Zorzi47079736.49