A Two-layer Model Predictive Control Based Secondary Control with Economic Performance Tracking for Islanded Microgrids

This paper proposes a two-layer microgrid supervisor based on Model Predictive Control (MPC). The supervisor in the upper layer relies on an economical optimization that considers the cost of energy and the load and production forecasts to define the State of Charge (SoC) targets for each storage device on a timescale of 15 minutes. The lower layer displays a shorter timescale and aims to control the equipment to ensure the stability of the overall system and SoC tracking while satisfying the economic constraints specified by the upper layer. These two layers require an uniformization of the timestep and of the references in order to behave properly. The main contributions of this paper are the microgrid network modelling embedded in the optimization routine of the lower layer and a discretization for integrating upper-layer references.

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