QDEVS natural coupled simulation of a microgrid

Simulation is a fundamental tool for the design of next generation power systems. At the same time, existing simulation methods are inadequate to tackle the complexity of such systems. In this paper we present a simulation approach based on the combination of Quantized Discrete Event System Specification (QDEVS) and the Latency Insertion Method (LIM). The combination of these two approaches leads to the definition of a simulation method which is highly parallelizable, capable of updating individual models asynchronously, and with performance automatically adaptable to different levels of desired detail. After the description of the method we illustrate the performance of the proposed simulation method using a microgrid example.