Hierarchical Distributed Voltage Control for Active Distribution
Networks with PVCs Based on DMPC and ADMM
Abstract
This paper proposes a hierarchical distributed voltage control (HDVC)
scheme for active distribution networks (ADNs) with high penetration of
photovoltaics based on distributed model predictive control (DMPC) and
alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The reactive power
outputs of several photovoltaic clusters (PVCs) and photovoltaic (PV)
units within each PVC are optimally coordinated to keep PV terminal
voltages and the voltages of all critical buses of ADNs within the
feasible range and mitigate voltage fluctuations. In the ADN layer, a
distributed reactive power control scheme based on DMPC is designed for
the PVC, which regulates the voltages of all critical buses to be closed
to the rated value and mitigates the reactive power variations. In the
PVC layer, the reactive power outputs of PV units are optimized based on
ADMM to minimize the voltage deviation of each PV terminal and track the
reactive power reference from the PVC control. The proposed HDVC scheme
requires communication only between neighboring PVC controller, while
each PV controller only communicates with the corresponding PVC
controller. This regulates the voltages in a completely decentralized
manner and effectively reduces the computation burden of the PVC and PV
controllers. A modified Finnish distribution network with 10 PVCs was
used to validate the control performance of the proposed HDVC scheme.