Reactive Power Sharing Control Strategy for Microgrids Dominated by Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Inverters Based on Adaptive Virtual Impedance

QIU Xiaoyan, YAN Xing, ZHOU Yi, LIN Haojin, ZANG Tianlei, ZHOU Buxiang

Electric Power Construction ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1) : 22-32.

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Electric Power Construction ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1) : 22-32. DOI: 10.12204/j.issn.1000-7229.2024.01.003
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Reactive Power Sharing Control Strategy for Microgrids Dominated by Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Inverters Based on Adaptive Virtual Impedance

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In the island microgrid system dominated by grid-forming(GFM) and grid-following(GFL) inverters, the active participation of GFL inverter in the secondary reactive power sharing can make the reactive power regulation and load capacity performance of microgrid enhanced. However, reactive power sharing is difficult to be achieved between inverters because of the different capacities, control methods of inverters and the mismatched impedance of transmission lines. Therefore, the freq/watt and volt/var droop control is applied to GFL inverter to make its power characteristic similar as GFM inverter, and the principle of reactive power sharing between GFM and GFL inverters is analyzed. On this basis, an adaptive virtual impedance strategy driven by reactive power sharing deviation information of adjacent inverters is proposed, which can achieve the adaptive reactive power sharing of GFM and GFL inverters when transmission line impedance and inverter capacity are different, and the selection method of related control parameters is also given. Finally, the applicability of the proposed strategy under the cases of line impedance variation, load switching, inverter capacity inequality and plug-and-play are tested in MATLAB/Simulink, so the correctness of the theoretical analysis is verified.

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island microgrid system / reactive power sharing / adaptive virtual impedance / grid-forming inverter / grid-following inverter

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Xiaoyan QIU , Xing YAN , Yi ZHOU , et al . Reactive Power Sharing Control Strategy for Microgrids Dominated by Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Inverters Based on Adaptive Virtual Impedance[J]. Electric Power Construction. 2024, 45(1): 22-32 https://doi.org/10.12204/j.issn.1000-7229.2024.01.003

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National Natural Science Foundation of China(51907097)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(52307126)
Special Fund for Basic Research Funds of Central Universities(2022SCU12006)
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