The Micro-Grid fast simulation platform exploitation based on PSCAD

A fast simulation platform dedicated to Micro Grid (MG) applications is proposed in the paper. The proposed simulation platform is essentially an additional library of the general simulation software PSCAD, which includes components and models in MG application. The content of the proposed simulation platform is introduced with 2 example models. A seamless control strategy is proposed to evaluate the simulation platform. It is the fact that average model based simulation can bring efficient results as switch model, at the ease of simulation speed improvement. The simulation results are verified by prototype experiments, which shows sufficient accordance.

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