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Title: Voltage regulation in distribution grids: A survey

Journal Article · · Annual Reviews in Control
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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  3. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (United States)

Environmental and sustainability concerns have caused a recent surge in the penetration of distributed energy resources into the power grid. This may lead to voltage violations in the distribution systems making voltage regulation more relevant than ever. Owing to this and rapid advancements in sensing, communication, and computation technologies, the literature on voltage control techniques is growing at a rapid pace in distribution networks. In particular, there is a paradigm shift from traditional offline centralized approaches to distributed ones leveraging increased and varied types of actuators, real-time sensing, fast and efficient computations, and an overall distributed situational awareness. This paper reviews state-of-the-art voltage control algorithms, summarizes the underlying methods, and classifies their coordination mechanisms into local, centralized, distributed, and decentralized. The underlying solution methodologies are further classified into two categories, open-loop and feedback-based. Two specific example workflows are provided to illustrate these solutions for voltage regulation.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); NIT Energy Fellowship; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308; OE0000920; IA-0000025; IA0000025
OSTI ID:
1971906
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1975412
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5R00-86087; MainId:86860; UUID:20587f46-60ef-48dd-8ef4-055c789f4447; MainAdminID:69380
Journal Information:
Annual Reviews in Control, Vol. 55; ISSN 1367-5788
Publisher:
International Federation of Automatic Control - ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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