Multi-agent Based Protection on Highly Dominated Distributed Energy Resources

Stephanus A. Ananda^*, Jyh-Cherng Gu

Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Chinese Taipei.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2013.54B177                

Abstract

Highly penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) on the grid systems nowadays makes the systems grow dynamically. The system become more complex and the protection system become more complicated. The protection relay should accommodate the system changes according to the system conditions and topologies. As part of developmental aspect of Distributed Artificial Intelligent, Multi Agent System (MAS) is a challenging method for improving the intelligent properties of relay protection. This paper introduces the use of MAS approach on radial distribution system protection dominated with DER using dispersed adaptive rule-based protection supported by distributed database agent. The simulation results confirmed that the proposed algorithm can respond within 15.05 ms.

Keywords

Multi-Agent System; Power System Protection; Distributed Energy Resources

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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