Supervisory Predictive Control of Standalone.pdf

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 19, NO. 1, JANUARY 2011 199 Supervisory Predictive Control of Standalone Wind/Solar Energy Generation Systems Wei Qi, Jinfeng Liu, Xianzhong Chen, and Panagiotis D. Christofides, Fellow, IEEE Abstract— This work focuses on the development of a supervi- requires addressing key fundamental challenges in the opera- sory model predictive control method for the optimal management tion and reliability of intermittent (variable output) renewable and operation of hybrid standalone wind-solar energy generation resources like solar- and wind-based energy generation systems. systems. We design the supervisory control system via model pre- dictive control which computes the power references for the wind Specifically, unexpected drops in energy production of a solar and solar subsystems at each sampling time while minimizing a or wind energy system may require quick start units to cover the suitable cost function. The power references are sent to two local shortfall while unexpected increases require the ability to absorb controllers which drive the two subsystems to the requested power the unscheduled generation. One way to deal with the variable references. We discuss how to incorporate practical considerations, output of wind and solar energy generation systems is through for example, how to extend the life time of the equipment by re- the use of integrated energy generation systems using both wind ducing the peak values of inrush or surge currents, into the formu- lation of the model predictive control optimization problem. We and photovoltaic energy, which are also tightly in