Adaptive droop gain‐based event‐triggered consensus reactive power sharing in microgrids

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive droop gain‐based consensus approach for reactive power sharing in microgrids (MGs) with the event triggered communication protocol (ETCP). A multi‐agent system‐based network is constructed to establish the communication with distributed generators (DGs) in MGs. An ETCP is proposed to reduce the communication among agents to save resources and improve system reliability, as the communication is only needed when the event triggered condition is fulfilled. A stability analysis is conducted to guarantee the existence of the equilibrium point and the freeness of the Zeno solution. Moreover, an adaptive droop gain is designed to reduce the impact of imbalanced feeder impedances. Four case studies are conducted to verify the effectiveness and performance of the proposed method. The simulation results show that the ETCP‐based approach is capable of achieving power sharing consensus, communication reduction and shifting the information exchange mode based on the operation scenarios.