In recent years, the electric power sectors worldwide have seen a gradual penetration of renewable energy based distributed generation (DG) units. When a DG or group of DG units operate as single controllable system, it is generally addressed as a Microgrid. These microgrids can be used to supply power to the main grid or can operate as an autonomous grid feeding the local load demand. In an autonomous microgrid, the intermittent nature of DG units (such as, photovoltaic and wind) makes the system highly dynamic. This talk will go into details of autonomous microgrids and discuss the issue of current harmonic sharing and some of the solutions to equally share the non-linear loads among DG units.

Speaker(s): Dr. Vinod Khadkikar,

Location:
Room: A 2473
Bldg: 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest
Department of Electrical Engineering
École de technologie supérieure
Montréal, Quebec
H3C 1K3