Photovoltaic Inverter Controllers Seeking AC Optimal Power Flow Solutions

Autor: Dall'Anese, Emiliano, Dhople, Sairaj V., Giannakis, Georgios B.
Rok vydání: 2014
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2454856
Popis: This paper considers future distribution networks featuring inverter-interfaced photovoltaic (PV) systems, and addresses the synthesis of feedback controllers that seek real- and reactive-power inverter setpoints corresponding to AC optimal power flow (OPF) solutions. The objective is to bridge the temporal gap between long-term system optimization and real-time inverter control, and enable seamless PV-owner participation without compromising system efficiency and stability. The design of the controllers is grounded on a dual epsilon-subgradient method, and semidefinite programming relaxations are advocated to bypass the non-convexity of AC OPF formulations. Global convergence of inverter output powers is analytically established for diminishing stepsize rules and strictly convex OPF costs for cases where: i) computational limits dictate asynchronous updates of the controller signals, and ii) inverter reference inputs may be updated at a faster rate than the power-output settling time. Although the focus is on PV systems, the framework naturally accommodates different types of inverter-interfaced energy resources.
Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Databáze: arXiv