Flexible and Advanced DBS: A distributed control strategy for a DC Nanogrid
Giovanni Brusco, Daniele Menniti, Anna Pinnarelli, Nicola Sorrentino, Juan C. Vásquez
Abstract
Nowadays, it is well known that the energy system is going towards a clear and necessary energy transition. New enabling technologies are needed to accelerate this transition, like the dc nanogrids. The dc nanogrids are designed for a bottom-up approach and play an important role due to their scalability and modularity features. To take advantage of these features, in this paper, the authors propose a flexible and advanced DBS distributed control strategy so to be independent from the dc nanogrid configuration and operating both in stand-alone and in the grid-connected mode. At this scope the dc nanogrid is modelled as the connection of multiple generic nodes and a hierarchical control architecture is applied as a single control structure. It facilitates the seamless transition between the operating modes, independently from the dc nanogrid configuration. The effectiveness of the proposed flexible and advanced DBS is validated by some experiments performed on a testbed integrating a dc nanogrid laboratory prototype.