Peng Zhang
ESE 586: Microgrids
Course description
Advanced modeling, control, resilience and security technologies useful for the grid modernization from a unique angle of microgrid design, analysis and operation.
Grid forming inverters, microgrid architectures, distributed energy resources modeling, microgrid hierachical control, microgrid stability, fault management, resilient microgrids through programmable networks, reliable networked microgrids, and cybersecurity.
Prerequisite
Undergraduate courses in circuits and power systems, or consent of instructor.
Location and Time
Frey Hall 316
Thursday 4:00-6:50 pm
Ten Lectures on Microgrids (Download Notes on Brightspace)
- Topic 1: Introduction (1 week)
- Energy resilience
- The concept of microgrids
- Topic 2: Microgrid Modelling and Control (4 weeks)
- Distributed energy resources (DERs) modelling I: PV system and grid-tie inverter
- Distributed energy resources (DERs) modelling II: Microturbine, storage and other DERs
- Centralized control, hierarchical control, distributed control
- Topic 3: Enhanced Microgrid Power Flow (2 weeks)
- Distribution and microgrid power flow I: Distributon load flow, BFS for radial systems, BFS for AC microgrids
- Distribution and microgrid power flow II: Newton power flow and Implicite Zbus Gauss power flow
- Reachable power flow
- Topic 4: Cybersecurity in Microgrids (1 week)
- Topic 5: Stability Analysis and Control of Microgrids (2 weeks)
- Small signal analysis
- Eigenanalysis of delayed microgrids
- Stability enhancement of microgrids
- Topic 6: Resilient Microgrids through Software Defined Networking (1 week)
- Part I: Resilient microgrid through programmable metwork
- Part II: Resilient networked microgrid through programmable metwork
- Topic 7: Active Fault Management for Networked Microgrids (1 week)
- Topic 8: DC Microgrids (1 week)
- Topic 9: Formal Analysis of Microgrids and Networked Microgrids(1 week)
- Topic 10: Future Perspectives (2 weeks)
- Stategric directions
- Data-driven microgrid analysis
- Future trends in microgrid security
Evaluation Scheme
Homework Assignments 70%
Term Project 30%
Textbook
Peng Zhang. Microgrids: Theory and Practice. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2023.
Reference
Peng Zhang. Networked Microgrids. Cambridge University Press, 2021.