Hybrid energy storage system control strategy to smooth power fluctuations in microgrids containing photovoltaics

Abstract

Abstract The use of a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) consisting of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors (SCs) to smooth the power imbalance between the photovoltaics and the load is a widespread solution, and a reasonable probabilistic allocation of the batteries and SCs affects the performance of the HESS. This paper focuses on developing a simple and effective power allocation strategy for the HESS. The moving average filtering (MAF) is considered to effectively decompose the low-frequency components as well as the high-frequency components in the signal and is simple to implement, and we spoil the low-frequency components decomposed by MAF several times to obtain more excellent low-frequency components; moreover, during HESS charging, when the state of charge (SOC) of the SC is high, we reduce the SC’s charging power by decreasing the number of times of MAF usage while ensuring the performance. During the HESS discharging, when the SOC of the SC is low, this strategy is also used to reduce the SC’s discharging power to ensure the SC’s safe operation. The proposed approach is fully validated, and it has excellent performance.