Hierarchical structure and bus voltage control of DC microgrid

Abstract Compared to AC microgrids, DC microgrids have the advantage of higher reliability and efficiency and are convenient to connect with various distribution energy resources (DERs). Concentrated in different time-scale control objectives, a multi-level control structure can guarantee that none of the control objectives affect each other. Considering this, an extensive review on the hierarchical structure of the DC microgrid is applied, and two typical control structures are presented in detail: two-level control architecture and three-level control architecture. Furthermore, the primary, secondary, and tertiary control levels are systematically analyzed and classified according to different control objectives. In order to improve the control capability of the primary control level, an energy efficiency improved DC bus voltage control strategy is proposed to increase the energy efficiency and system reliability. Finally, a distributed DC microgrid model is established and simulated in the RT-LAB to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.