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Hardware Development of a Laboratory-Scale Microgrid Phase 1--Single Inverter in Island Mode Operation: Base Year Report, December 2000 -- November 2001

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The report provides a methodology for determining battery energy storage requirements, a method for converting a motor drive inverter into a utility-grade inverter, and typical characteristics and test results of using such an inverter in a complex load environment.
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This report summarizes the activities of the first year of a three-year project to develop control software for micro-source distributed generation systems. The focus of this phase was on internal energy storage requirements, the modification of an off-the-shelf motor drive system inverter to supply utility-grade ac power, and a single inverter system operating in island mode. The report provides a methodology for determining battery energy storage requirements, a method for converting a motor drive inverter into a utility-grade inverter, and typical characteristics and test results of using such an inverter in a complex load environment.

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Microgrids and Distributed Generation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a system approach which views generation and associated loads as a subsystem or a microgrid, where the sources can operate in parallel to the grid or can operate on an island, providing utility power station services.
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Multivariable Servomechanism Controller for Autonomous Operation of a Distributed Generation Unit: Design and Performance Evaluation

TL;DR: In this paper, a linear time-invariant robust servomechanism controller for islanded (autonomous) operation of a distributed generation (DG) unit and its local load is proposed.
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Hardware Development of a Laboratory-Scale Microgrid Phase 2: Operation and Control of a Two-Inverter Microgrid

TL;DR: In this paper, the second year of a three-year project to develop control software for microsource distributed generation systems is summarized, and a laboratory-scale microgrid is expanded to include: (1) two emulated distributed resources; (2) static switchgear to allow rapid disconnection and reconnection; (3) Electronic synchronizing circuitry to enable transient-free grid interconnection; (4) Control software for dynamically varying the frequency and voltage controller structures; and (5) power measurement instrumentation for capturing transient waveforms at the interconnect during switching events.
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MicroGrid modelling and simulation

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Study of the load‐following performance of distributed generators in a micro‐grid

TL;DR: A study on the load-following performance of typical distributed generators, MTG and FC by modeling and simulations and behaviors of voltage and frequency in a micro-grid after sudden separation from the utility grid.
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