MPC-based three-phase unbalanced power coordination control method for microgrid clusters

The microgrid cluster group-level bus voltage is high, the capacity is large, and the interconnection bus is connected to various microgrid subsystems. It is challenging for the microsource inverters in the subsystems to directly participate in the imbalance regulation of the group-level bus voltage, so it is currently difficult to solve the three-phase imbalance of the group-level bus voltage. In this paper, a particular structure of a series microgrid is applied to the cluster system, and a three-phase unbalanced control strategy based on model predictive control for the cluster system is proposed. First, the grid-connected current prediction control model of the series microgrid inverter using an LCL filter is established, a medium-voltage high-capacity three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) power electronic converter is introduced into the system and used as the central inverter of the DC microgrid, and the model prediction control method is applied to this central inverter. Second, considering possible load asymmetry operating conditions of the group bus, the p-q-o method is used to calculate the load imbalance current component that must be compensated, which is used as a part of the output current of the series microgrid or DC microgrid, based on which the three-phase unbalanced power coordinated control method between two heterogeneous microgrids is studied. The simulation results show that the series microgrid and DC microgrid exhibit good three-phase unbalance suppression under load unbalanced conditions, and the coordinated control between them can effectively improve the three-phase unbalance suppression capability of the system, which confirms that the proposed control strategy can achieve high-quality voltage output of the microgrid cluster system in multiple scenarios. •Series-connected microgrid subsystem is applied to the cluster system.•A three-phase voltage unbalance control method based on MPC is proposed.•An unbalanced power coordination compensation method between microgrids is proposed.•The compensation of unbalanced current of group-level bus in cluster system is solved.