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Microgrid: Operation, Control, Monitoring and Protection

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 625))

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Due to the growing awareness of the harmful impact of conventional fossil fuels and advancements in renewable energy technologies, microgrid has grown in popularity. This chapter aims to provide holistic learning of the microgrid system. This chapter is not only helpful for readers who are new to the world microgrid energy systems but also provide essential information to experts of this field. The chapter highlights the need and merits of adoption of microgrid systems while also highlighting the barriers in its implementation. The chapter also provides the various methods of categorization of microgrid while also emphasizing critical points of multiple categories. The different aspect of the deployment of microgrids, such as its architecture, mode of operations, control strategies, monitoring methods, protection schemes, and energy management strategies are categorically explained. The fundamental requirement of the protection system and its functions are described to provide the overview of protection schemes used in the microgrid in this chapter. Various protection schemes will be discussed in the other following chapter giving more emphasis on new protection strategies.

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Abbreviations

BSS:

Battery Storage System

CCMS:

Central Control and Management System

DCS:

Current Protection

DIR:

Directional Impedance Relay

DNO:

Distribution Network Operator

DPS:

Differential Protection Scheme

EMS:

Energy Management System

ESS:

Energy Storage System

f :

Frequency

HMI:

Human-Machine Interface

LAN:

Local Area Network

MPPT:

Maximum Power Point Tracking

OCR:

Overcurrent Relay

P :

Active Power

PCC:

Point of Common Coupling

PCS:

Protection and Coordination System

PI:

Proportional Integral

PV:

Photovoltaic

Q :

Reactive Power

REC:

Renewable Energy Controller

RES:

Renewable Energy Source

SCADA:

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SOs:

System Operators

V :

Voltage

VSC:

Voltage Source Converter

VSI:

Voltage Source Inverter

WAN:

Wide Area Networks

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

    Arvind R. Singh & Ding Lei

  2. College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Abhishek Kumar

  3. Department of EECE, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Ranjay Singh

  4. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Nand K. Meena

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Singh, A.R., Lei, D., Kumar, A., Singh, R., Meena, N.K. (2020). Microgrid System. In: Ray, P., Biswal, M. (eds) Microgrid: Operation, Control, Monitoring and Protection. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 625. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1781-5_1

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