Control Design and Management of a Distributed Energy Resources System

Abstract

Energy generation, distribution, and transmission are crucial to the development and advancement of humans and their environment. Therefore, the need for a sustainable environment is essential. This study focuses on designing, building, testing, and commissioning an intelligent grid solar-powered distributed energy resource system to serve as an alternative to powering loads with conventional energy sources, creating a pollution-free and self-dependent system that can be built to the capacity of the required load. The solar panels, voltage regulator, microprocessor, solar charge controller, and batteries are all interconnected to automatically switch between the three solar substations. The simulation of the DER network system was executed with MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape Electrical. The management system was created using the Visual Studio 2019 and ASP.NET MVC software. The management system was designed to keep tabs on the daily sales of the DER components to various clients. The results are achieved by subjecting a load (21W rated headlight bulb and a 5W rated fluorescent bulb) at specified time intervals (10, 20, 30 minutes). The results showed us a particular set threshold voltage for the sub-station switch. This project gives an insight into how good and reliable the distributed energy resource system can be as it provides a constant power supply to the equipment.

Keywords

• distributed energy
• inventory system
• modelling
• solar panel