A low-voltage DC Microgrid can be used to supply sensitive electronic loads, since it combines the advantages of using a DC supply for electronic loads, and using local generation to supply sensitive loads. A commercial power system which can benefit from using a DC Microgrid is data center. The lower losses due to fewer power conversion steps results in less heat which need to be cooled, and t...

The microgrid system is an answer to the necessity of increasing renewable energy penetration and also works as a bridge for the future smart grid. Considering the microgrid system applied to commercial building equipped with photovoltaic sources, the usage of a DC microgrid architecture can improve the efficiency of the system, while ensuring robustness and reducing the overall energy cost. Gi...

ABSTRACT: Installation of many distributed generations (DGs) could be detrimental to the power quality of utility grids. Micro grids facilitate effortless installation of DGs in conventional power systems. In recent years, DC microgrid have gained popularity because DC output sources such as photovoltaic systems, fuel cells, and batteries can be interconnected without ac/dc conversion, which co...

his investigation tried to control a standalone hybrid DC microgrid in islanded operation mode by using decentralized power management strategies. Unlike common approaches where a Photovoltaic (PV) module is controlled as current source, the proposed strategy controls PV arrays as a voltage source that follows the current/voltage adaptive characteristic curve. Proposed I/V characteristic for hy...

The idea of a microgrid is created by utilizing more diverse ac or dc distributed generation (DG) sources along with an energy storage system (ESS) and loads. The most efficient and reliable selection of ac and dc microgrids is a hybrid ac/dc microgrid. The hybrid microgrid largely overcomes the shortcomings of standalone ac or dc microgrids. A bidirectional interlinking converter (BIC) is util...

A sustainable residential microgrid composed of two distributed generation sources (photovoltaic panels and biofuel generator), one energy storage device (battery bank), and able of supplying both AC and DC loads, including a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, is proposed. The microgrid can operate in grid-connected mode and island mode. It is composed of a main DC bus and also an AC bus. The cha...

A microgrid is a part of a distribution network embedding multiple distributed generation systems (mostly nonconventional renewable energy sources like photovoltaic panels, small wind turbines etc.) and storage systems with local loads, which can be disconnected from the upstream network under emergency conditions or as planned. The microgrid concept naturally arose to cope with the penetration...

: This paper proposes an autonomous and economic droop control scheme for DC microgrid application. In this method, a cost-effective power sharing technique among various types of DG units is properly adopted. The droop settings are determined based on an algorithm to individually manage the power management without any complicated optimization methods commonly applied in the centralized contro...

This paper proposes an autonomous and economic droop control scheme for DC microgrid application. In this method, a cost-effective power sharing technique among various types of DG units is properly adopted. The droop settings are determined based on an algorithm to individually manage the power management without any complicated optimization methods commonly applied in the centralized control ...

The electricity market and environmental concerns, with wide utilization of renewable sources, have improved the diffusion of distributed generation units changing the operations of distribution grids from passive networks to microgrids. A microgrid includes a cluster of electrical loads, energy storage devices and microsources, which provide both power and heat to their local area. A microgrid...