Resumen
The management of energy in distribution networks has been gathering attention in recent years. The simultaneous control of generation and demand is crucial for achieving energy savings and can further lower energy pricing. The work aims to develop a control scheme for a hybrid microgrid that can provide stability to the bus voltage and effectively manage the power flow. Solar energy is the current trend in renewable energy sources (RES). There is a surge in the installation of solar PV systems both on a large scale and on a small scale, such as rooftop PV systems. Installation of RES at residential premises has to be conducted with a proper power management scheme. The hybrid microgrid for this work consists of a PV system with a boost converter to extract maximum power, a DC-DC bi-directional converter to charge or discharge the hybrid energy-storing devices, and a three-phase AC-DC interlinking converter for exchange of energy with the utility grid. The control and power management scheme checks the voltage of each unit and maintains the power flow according to operating conditions. Disturbances are introduced in the form of load switching and irradiance variation to check the system performance. The system is tested on the MATLAB (R2021a) Simulink platform for varying its different modes of operations. An experimental set-up has been developed with hardware-in-the-loop to validate the simulation results.