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Autonomous Control Strategies for Interconnected DC Microgrid Applications with Multiple der Resource Penetration

Gonzalez-Candelario, Carlos O.; Darbali-Zamora, Rachid; Flicker, Jack D.; Rashkin, Lee; Neely, Jason; Aponte-Bezares, Erick

DC microgrids envisioned with high bandwidth communications may well expand their application range by considering autonomous strategies as resiliency contingencies. In most cases, these strategies are based on the droop control method, seeking low voltage regulation and proportional load sharing. Control challenges arise when coordinating the output of multiple DC microgrids composed of several Distributed Energy Resources. This paper proposes an autonomous control strategy for transactional converters when multiple DC microgrids are connected through a common bus. The control seeks to match the external bus voltage with the internal bus voltage balancing power. Three case scenarios are considered: standalone operation of each DC microgrid, excess generation, and generation deficit in one DC microgrid. Results using Sandia National Laboratories Secure Scalable Microgrid Simulink library, and models developed in MATLAB are compared.