Abstract:
Electrical power supply to serve critical facilities
are of high importance in today’s world. Instead of building a
large electric power system, an intelligent Micro Grid (MG) can
be considered as a promising power supply alternative for those
critical facilities. This study presents the development and
controlling of a laboratory scale MG which consists of several
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as Solar PV, Diesel
Generator, Micro Hydro model, Battery Bank with a
bidirectional inverter and critical and non-critical loads.
Controlling of the MG is done by using distributed autonomous
control strategies and Multi Agent System Architectures. It can
operate in a grid connected mode as well as autonomous mode
when it is isolated. The whole system was simulated using
MATLAB and the simulation results and practical results were
compared when MG is operated in different scenarios. The
effectiveness of this controlling method is discussed in this paper.
