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Decentralized Voltage Control in Active Distribution Systems: Features and Open Issues

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  • Giuseppe Fusco

    (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 03043 Cassino, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Mario Russo

    (Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 03043 Cassino, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Michele De Santis

    (Engineering Department, University Niccolò Cusano, 00166 Roma, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Voltage control is becoming a key issue in active distribution systems, which are electric distribution networks characterized by a large penetration of DERs. Traditional voltage control devices, as well as the active and reactive powers injected by DERs, can be used as ancillary services to support voltage profiles along the distribution feeders. Due to the peculiar characteristics of active distribution systems, the decentralized control approach presents the most promising technical and economical features. In the paper, the decentralized voltage control structure is hierarchically decomposed into different control levels, characterized by different objectives and time frames. The primary and secondary control levels have been analyzed, always according to a decentralized approach. For each level, the various techniques for solving the voltage control problem that have been proposed in the literature are presented, and their main features compared. The main open issues related to the real time practical implementation of the decentralized architectures at both primary and secondary voltage control levels are investigated, keeping always in mind both technical and economical aspects, which always represent the components of a trade-off solution.

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  • Giuseppe Fusco & Mario Russo & Michele De Santis, 2021. "Decentralized Voltage Control in Active Distribution Systems: Features and Open Issues," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-31, April.
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