Control System of Multi-Port Autonomous Reconfigurable Solar Power Plant (MARS) & HIL Platforms for Design

Suman Debnath; Qianxue Xia; Zerui Dong; Phani R.V. Marthi; Shilpa Marti; Anil Kondabathini; Sudipta Chakraborty; Maryam Saeedifard; Jiuping Pan; Md Arifujjaman

doi:10.1109/TSTE.2023.3346313

Control System of Multi-Port Autonomous Reconfigurable Solar Power Plant (MARS) & HIL Platforms for Design

Suman Debnath, Qianxue Xia, Zerui Dong, Phani R.V. Marthi, Shilpa Marti, Anil Kondabathini, Sudipta Chakraborty, Maryam Saeedifard, Jiuping Pan, Md Arifujjaman

Power Systems Resilience

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Multi-port autonomous reconfigurable solar power plant (MARS) provides an attractive alternative to connect photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems (ESSs) to high-voltage direct current (HVdc) links and high-voltage alternating current (ac) grids. In this paper, a unique hierarchical control system of MARS is proposed and evaluated. To evaluate the control system and associated algorithms in early-stage research of complex architectures like MARS, it is important to develop unique suitable hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platforms. In this paper, the HIL platforms for MARS to evaluate the performance of the hierarchical control system and the control algorithms implemented are presented. They help with the design process of control systems. The real-time simulation models and algorithms that are utilized for MARS in the HIL platforms are also discussed in the paper. The HIL experiments of the control system of MARS showcase the capability to provide continuity of operation under faults and frequency support to the power grid during loss of generation. They also showcase the stability of the proposed hierarchical control system of MARS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1423-1434
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2023.3346313
State	Published - Jul 1 2024

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) through Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) under Agreement 34019. Paper no. TSTE-00301-2023.

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Control hardware-in-the-loop (cHIL)
electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation
energy storage system (ESS)
high-voltage direct current (HVdc)
hybrid PV-ESS
multi-port power electronics
photovoltaic (PV)
virtual synchronous generator (VSG)

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