Design of Economic Dispatch Schemes of An Isolated BESS Network Based on Distributed Discrete-time PI+Rest Consensus

Abstract

Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are widely integrated into smart grids. For an isolated BESS network, however, capacity degradation and power loss of battery units increase operating costs. To alleviate this problem, two distributed economic dispatch (ED) schemes with discrete-time dynamics are developed in this paper, thus obtaining the optimal output power vector and ensuring supply-demand balance while considering dynamic line loss and capacity constraints. It is worth mentioning that proportional-integral protocols with reset mechanisms (PI+R protocols) are introduced into these schemes which can greatly improve the consensus rate and control accuracy. Specifically, a marginal cost (MC) consensus controller and an average power mismatch estimator are the core components of each scheme, where these two are coupled to each other. In this regard, the difference between the two schemes is that for the MC consensus controllers, one involves incorporating the estimated average power mismatch feedback term into the closed-loop system error to design the PI+R protocol, while the other does not. In addition, regarding to each PI+R protocol, the integral term is reset to 0 when the proportional term experiences zero crossing, in order to accelerate the convergence rate and reduce overshoot. The effectiveness, conditions under which the reset mechanism works, and stability of these schemes are all well analyzed. Finally, some simulation cases are designed and compared with an existing solution. From the simulation results, it can be seen that the designed second scheme greatly improves the performance of the previous scheme in consensus rate, convergence rate, BESS/agent plug and play, load switching, and wide area system application.