Experiment Specification TC8.TS01.ES01

TC8.TS01.ES01

Validation of the performance of a MAS and PV systemsin providing grid voltage control functionality

Pure co-simulation: Validation and evaluation of the voltage control functionality of a MAS-based distributed voltage control system

CEA/INES (France)

The experiments is realized by performing a co-simulation setup between PowerFactory and Python via OPC server.

The MAS is developed and modelled in a Python environment. A realistic LV network with high penetration of PV systems is modelled in PowerFactory and is run in RMS mode. The PV inverter controllers are also embedded in PowerFactory.

The control and measured signals that are exchanged between PowerFactory and Python are carried out via OPC server.

The diagram of the co-simulation setup is shown in the figure below

The PowerFactory model of PV inverter controller

Agent structure and its RPC (remote-procedure call) mechanism is presented as the following:

Item tag names in PowerFactory for communicating with OPC server

There are two different types of simulation will be carried out:

1. Different operating conditions with high PV generation will be generated in order to evaluate the performance of the distributed voltage control and the voltage support capability of the PV systems by regulating their reactive power exchange
2. Different time delay and packet loss will be created to test the signal exchange capability of the agents within the proposed MAS and also their performance under circumstances of lack of input data

• OPAL-RT simulation time step: Ts = 5e10-6 s

Matlab files and csv files