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Evaluation of hierarchical controls to manage power, energy and daily operation of remote off-grid power systems

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  • Kaluthanthrige, Roshani
  • Rajapakse, Athula D.

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Integration of locally available renewable energy sources and energy storage have proven to be a cost-effective and eco-friendly retrofit for the primarily diesel-based remote off-grid power systems. However, in the presence of multiple sources and energy storage, the energy management and power management mechanisms must be properly designed to enhance their envisioned benefits while assuring stability, availability, and security of power supply. This paper presents a hierarchical controller equipped with both energy management and power management strategies to obtain an optimum and stable system operation subjecting remote off-grid power systems. An operation evaluation framework is deployed to assess the applicability of the derived optimum operational routines as well as to verify the competence of the low-level controls. Results are demonstrated for a remote off-grid PV-Diesel-Battery power system under different diurnal and seasonal variations. Results revealed the competence of incorporated power management strategies as well as the use of proposed operation evaluation mechanism in identifying certain risks associated with optimum operational routines derived through energy management systems. The overall study confirmed that a coordinated control and operation evaluation platform is required to achieve a logical and quantitatively optimized operational trajectory.

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  • Kaluthanthrige, Roshani & Rajapakse, Athula D., 2021. "Evaluation of hierarchical controls to manage power, energy and daily operation of remote off-grid power systems," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 299(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:299:y:2021:i:c:s0306261921006796
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117259
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