Collaborative Control of Microgrid for Emergency Response and Disaster Relief

The microgrid can address the technical and commercial challenge of integrating distributed energy resources into the bulk electric grid, and also provide an effective approach to reducing the consequences of natural disaster (e.g. earthquake, hurricane and snowstorm). The microgrid features and its applications to emergency response and disaster relief are first presented in this paper. A control scheme that can maintain the coordinated operation of interconnected units in the microgrid to meet emergency response and disaster relief requirements is then proposed. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme, simulation studies have been performed on a microgrid with multiple distributed energy resources. Simulation results clearly indicate that the proposed control scheme is effective to coordinate interconnected units and meet the emergency response and disaster relief requirements.