Cooperative Balancing of Distributed Energy Storage Systems

Competitive advantage

• Expertise in developing centralized and distributed multi-agent control strategies for energy storage systems. This provides:
• Improved performance compared with decentralised control strategies
• Advantages in terms of robustness, scalability, security and flexibility over centralised control strategies

Impact

• Cooperative balancing can lead to the avoidance of costly power network upgrades and increase power-supply security.

Successful applications

• Development of centralised and multi-agent control strategies for distributed energy storage systems that:
• Are robust to communication network delays
• Allow state-of-charge balancing with no circulating currents
• Have plug-and-play capability

Capabilities and facilities

• One of the largest Real Time Digital Simulators (RTDS) in academic and research institutions globally. It allows:
• Real-time verification of algorithms and simulation of power networks together with accurate models of energy storage systems and power converters
• Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, which is the final step before field verification. This presents the opportunity for rapid research, development and verification neces