Power Control of Microgrid with Rich Small Hydropower Stations

Abstract

In China, some remote areas with rich small hydropower stations suffer from a tradeoff between water surplus and off-limit voltage in the grid during wet seasons. The microgrid of new energy sources provides a new way of solving this problem. Under the background of the microgrid proposed in somewhere of Jiangxi Province, this paper firstly carries out simplified model on the actual system. Output models of PV and small hydropower stations are established. Then with Minimizing transmission losses of microgrid system and the amount of all small hydropower abandoned waters as the optimization objective, and considering the output constraints of each micro power source, power balance constraints and voltage constraints. A micro-power output optimization model is established and then solved by improved particle swarm optimization algorithm. By comparing the micro-power output and system line loss before and after the optimization, it verifies that the proposed power control method can prevent the off-limit voltage effectively and reduce transmission losses of the system.