EMS software development for micro grid-III

• Main Author: Wang, Xiaojian.
• Other Authors: Wang Peng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electric power; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Simulation and modeling
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44894
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Due to environment problems and rapid depletion of conventional sources, renewable energy sources are increasingly brought into service commonly in the form of distributed generation within micro grids. Micro grid, with its characteristics caused both by distributed generation and instable nature of renewable sources, depends on its energy management system (EMS) for reliable and efficient operation. While there are many software products of general power system simulation, software specially designed for the purpose of simulation and management of micro grid is rare. The aim of this project was to develop a software implementation of power flow evaluation for micro grid and its management. Specifically, this project consists of the overall construction of the software, GUI design, micro grid components modeling, implementation of nonlinear power flow algorithms, design and development of an algorithm to find feasible power flow solution of isolated micro grid, and development of continuous simulation. The software was developed in C# programing language, upon the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. By the time of this report, most of the objectives have been achieved. However, this work can be improved in many aspects by future development. Some unpractical modeling approaches could be revised and more electrical components could be added. The algorithm of feasible power solution finding could also be focused on to increase the practicality of the simulation and management functionality of this software.