Consensus-Based Voltage Setpoint Regulation for Power Networks

As renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic (PV) cells and wind turbines become increasingly prevalent in our lives, power systems require modern and advanced techniques to cope with uncertainties and intermittence from these sources. This thesis shifts the focus from centralized control structures to the analysis of decentralized controllers. The proposed work aims to analyze the voltage regulation problem in a microgrid by exploiting a different point of view: a consensus based algorithm as a control strategy. With the goal of ensuring power balance and voltage stability across the network. Simulations in Matlab/Simulink demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy in meeting the requirements imposed by the microgrid structure, achieving promising performance outcomes.