VOLTTRON™ agent development for enabling reactive power support of non-utility DERs by integrating transactive energy approach

Paychuda Kritprajun; Joshua C. Hambrick; Leon M. Tolbert; Jiaojiao Dong; Lin Zhu; Yunting Liu; Bishnu Bhattarai; Kevin Schneider; Stuart Laval

doi:10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281434

VOLTTRON™ agent development for enabling reactive power support of non-utility DERs by integrating transactive energy approach

Paychuda Kritprajun, Joshua C. Hambrick, Leon M. Tolbert, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Yunting Liu, Bishnu Bhattarai, Kevin Schneider, Stuart Laval

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Abstract

To enable better voltage regulation in power systems with high penetration of photovoltaics (PV) and other distributed energy resources (DERs), inverters are now being required to provide reactive power support to the grid in addition to providing real power generated by PV panels. This paper develops a framework that coordinates the support from DER-based inverters, which are grid-connected non-utility assets, by using a transactive energy approach. Results of the implementation demonstrate participation of DER-based inverters can be achieved by using the coordination between distributed controllers and a centralized controller. With the transactive energy approach, both the customer and utility can achieve benefits that meet their individual needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728155081
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281434
State	Published - Aug 2 2020
Event	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Aug 2 2020 → Aug 6 2020

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Name	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Volume	2020-August
ISSN (Print)	1944-9925
ISSN (Electronic)	1944-9933

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Conference	2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	08/2/20 → 08/6/20

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The paper is organized as follows. Section II gives a background of related systems. Section III presents the agent development for enabling the support from non-utility inverters. Section IV is the simulation results of the framework, and conclusions and future work are described in Section V.

Funders	Funder number
GMLC
U.S. Department of Energy Grid Modernization Lab Consortium
National Science Foundation	EEC-1041877
U.S. Department of Energy

Keywords

Agents system
Distributed control
Distributed energy resources
Grid support
Transactive energy system

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Kritprajun, P., Hambrick, J. C., Tolbert, L. M., Dong, J., Zhu, L., Liu, Y., Bhattarai, B., Schneider, K., & Laval, S. (2020). VOLTTRON™ agent development for enabling reactive power support of non-utility DERs by integrating transactive energy approach. In 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020 Article 9281434 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2020-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281434

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2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2020. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. 9281434 (IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; Vol. 2020-August).

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VOLTTRON™ agent development for enabling reactive power support of non-utility DERs by integrating transactive energy approach

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