Hierarchical Control of Community Grid for Residential Houses

The recent advancements in renewable energy technologies is empowering residential consumers to meet their energy requirements from locally installed renewable energy devices and energy storage devices. In this context, the adjacent microgrids can interact and share these resources using a stable strategy through which economic, environmental and operational advantage can be gained. In this paper a three-level hierarchical control is introduced into residential houses to effectively share the power between houses coming under the community microgrid in such a way that users will get power at an optimized price. The hierarchical control algorithm is developed for primary control (Local control center), secondary control (Microgrid control center) and tertiary control (Upstream control). This paper shows that implementing hierarchical control for the residential distributed generation paves way for the power-sharing across different community grids thereby upgrading the existing AC smart grid operation.