ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Energy Res., 13 January 2022

Sec. Smart Grids

Volume 9 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.798793

A Control Parameters Design Method With Multi-Constrains for an LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter in a Weak Grid

  • 1. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Sanjiang University, Nanjing, China

  • 2. School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Abstract

Under weak grid conditions, the variation of the grid impedance will affect the steady-state and dynamic performance of the LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter and even make the inverter unstable. To ensure the system stability and further improve the dynamic performance in a weak grid, a control parameter design method with multi-constrains considering the system bandwidth for the current controller and active damping is proposed in this paper. First, based on the current controller and active damping with only grid current feedback, the effects of control parameters and grid impedance on the LCL resonant suppression and the performance of the inverter are analyzed. Moreover, the parameter constraints of the controllers are derived considering the grid impedance, including stability, resonance suppression, and margin constraints. Furthermore, as the system bandwidth affects the dynamic performance of the inverter, combined with the obtained multi-constraints, the optimal control parameters are determined by achieving the maximum bandwidth of the system against the impedance variation. Compared with other two methods, when the proposed method is applied, the system can operate with a better dynamic and steady-state performance. Finally, experiments are performed on a 2 kW three-phase grid-connected inverter in the weak grid, which verify the effectiveness of the parameter design method proposed in this paper.

1 Introduction

Currently, distributed power generation systems based on renewable energy have been widely used in power grids (; ), and the three-phase grid-connected inverter with an LCL or L filter, as an important interface between the distributed generation system and the grid, plays an important role in it (; ; ; ; ).

Although the LCL filter has better performance and switching harmonic attenuation ability than the L filter (; ), the inherent resonance problem of the LCL filter is harmful to the quality of grid current and even affects the stability of the system (). Compared with passive damping solutions proposed in , that cause non-negligible power loss, the active damping (AD) method is more flexible and efficient. In the literature (), an RLC damping circuit for the LCL filter is investigated to solve the resonant frequency peak of an LCL grid-connected inverter, which is equivalent to an AD control method essentially. The literature () proposes an AD method by adding a notch filter to the forward channel for canceling the LCL filter resonant peak, but its robustness should be improved, and the parameter adjustment is relatively complex. The literature (; ; ) proposes AD algorithms with three different kinds of feedback signals, which are the filter capacitor current, the filter capacitor voltage, and the grid-side current. In order to decrease power losses caused by multiple sensors and reduce the system cost, the grid-current-feedback AD method is adopted in , . Meanwhile, a proportional resonant (PR) controller is preferred to provide suitable power quality to the grid for the inverter, which can significantly increase the gain at the intended frequency, track of the sinusoidal waveform with zero steady-state error, and have better disturbance rejection capability (; ). According to the method in , a parameter range can be obtained for the PR controller and AD loop, which could ensure the grid current quality and system stability under ideal grid conditions.

However, due to the direct interconnection with power grids, system control performance and stability may be affected by weak grid conditions, for example, gird impedance variation (). It is known that grid impedance can lead to sustained harmonic resonance or other instability problems, which destabilizes the grid-connected inverter (). Furthermore, the wide-range variation of the grid impedance may affect the resonant suppression for the LCL filter in a weak grid (; ). Therefore, it is necessary to design the control parameters reasonably considering grid impedance in the weak grid.

The existing approaches have been proposed to maintain the grid-connected inverter work normally and stably under weak grid conditions. The literature () proposed a method to determine inverter-grid system stability using the inverter output impedance and the grid impedance. It is shown that a grid-connected inverter system will remain stable if the ratio between the grid impedance and the inverter output impedance satisfies the Nyquist stability criterion. Then, based on the impedance-based stability criterion for grid-connected inverters, the literature (; ; ; ) proposed different methods to ensure the stable operation of the grid-connected inverter system in the weak grid. However, this analysis method based on the impedance-based stability criterion needs to design the parameters in advance for the stable operation of the grid-connected inverter system, without considering the grid impedance. Moreover, this method is normally used to analyze the stability of the grid-connected inverter in the weak grid, in which the analysis of the dynamic performance is not considered. In addition, other scholars proposed a control strategy by the grid impedance detection technique to eliminate the impact of the grid impedance on the grid-connected inverter system (; ). Although the automatic adaptive control technology based on the grid impedance online measurement can improve the adaptability of the grid-connected inverter system to the weak grid effectively, and the harmonics injected during impedance detection will deteriorate the quality of grid currents. Besides, the control performance of the inverter system depends on the rapidity and accuracy of the grid impedance online measurement, and the dynamic performance of system is still not well addressed.

Above all, under the weak grid, the multi-constrains including stability constraints, resonance suppression constraints, and margin constraints have not been considered to design the current controller and active damping loop comprehensively in these solutions, which determine stability, grid-current quality, and dynamic and steady-state performance of the inverter. Furthermore, considering the variation of grid impedance, the impact of grid impedance on the bandwidth of the inverter system should also be concerned, which also affects the dynamic performance of the system.

In this paper, aiming at improving the dynamic and stability performance of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter with a good quality of the grid current in the weak grid, a parameter design method for the current controller and active damping with grid-side current feedback is proposed in this paper. In Section 2, the mathematical model of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter in the weak grid is established. The influence of the PR controller and the active damping circuit on the resonance peak suppression of the LCL filter and the stability of the inverter under weak grid conditions are analyzed. In Section 3, the parameter constraints of the current controller and active damping loop are analyzed in the weak grid, including stability, resonance suppression, and margin constraints. In Section 4, based on the derived multi-constraints, a parameter design method for the active damping and current controller is proposed, which can achieve the maximum bandwidth of the inverter considering the impedance variation so that the system can operate with a good dynamic and steady-state performance. The experimental results in Section 5 verify the effectiveness of the parameter design method proposed in this paper.

2 Modeling and Control of the LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter in the Weak Grid

Figure 1 shows the main circuit of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter under the weak grid. L1x (x = a,b,c) are LCL filter inverter-side three-phase inductors, whose value is L1. Cx (x = a,b,c) are LCL filter three-phase capacitors, whose value is C1. L2x (x = a,b,c) are LCL filter grid-side three-phase inductors, whose value is L2. The weak grid consists of ideal voltage sources ex (x = a,b,c) and inductive grid impedances Lgx (x = a,b,c), and the value of grid impedance is Lg. uix (x = a,b,c) are inverter three-phase output voltages, i1x (x = a,b,c) are three-phase inverter-side currents of the LCL filter, and i2x (x = a,b,c) are three-phase grid-side currents of the filter. Vdc is the dc-bus voltage.

FIGURE 1

In the two-phase static coordinate system (αβ), the closed-loop control block diagram of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter is shown in Figure 2, where Kpwm = Vdc/2 is the gain of the PWM inverter. Gc(s) is the proportional resonance controller expressed aswhere Kp and Kr are the proportional gain and the resonant gain of the PR controller, ωi is the cut-off angular frequency of the PR controller, and ωo is the grid fundamental angular frequency ().

FIGURE 2

Gad(s) is the transfer function of the AD loop. Considering the complexity of the AD loop which affects the characteristic of three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter in the low-frequency range, Gad(s) is implemented by a second-order differential term in the s-domain (). Gad(s) can be expressed aswhere kad is the AD coefficient.

GD(s) is the transfer function of the total delay due to digital control, consisting of the computation delay, the zero-order holder, and the sampling switch. Considering that the computation delay may reduce the control loop bandwidth and make the system unstable, a previously reported time-delay compensator (), as a first-order digital filter with a phase-lead characteristic, is directly adopted to mitigate time delay here. GD(s) is expressed aswhere Ts is the sampling period.

The transfer function from ui(s) to i2(s) for the LCL filter can be derived aswhere ωres is defined the resonant frequency when grid impedance Lg is considered.

Generally, the resonant gain Kr of the PR controller can be neglected at the cutoff frequency ωc and the frequencies higher than ωc (; ). Hence, in the process of analyzing system stability, the current controller Gc(s) can be approximated as Kp. From (1–4), the open-loop transfer function of the system can be derived as

In order to analyze the influence of the PR controller and the active damping loop on the resonance peak suppression of the LCL filter and the stability of the inverter under weak grid conditions, Figure 3 shows the Bode diagram of the open-loop transfer function of the system. LCL filter parameters are shown in Table 1, where fs is the sampling frequency.

FIGURE 3

TABLE 1

ParameterValue
Inverter-side inductor L12 mH
Grid-side inductor L21 mH
Filter capacitor C50 μF
Sampling frequency fs10 kHz

Parameters of the LCL filter.

From Figure 3A, it can be seen that when Kp = 0.025 and kad = 2 × 10–9, the system can maintain stable under different Lg conditions. Supposing that Kp is modified to 0.04, as shown in Figure 3B, when Lg increases, the gain margin (GM) of the system changes from positive to negative, and the grid-connected inverter becomes unstable. Otherwise, supposing that kad is modified to 1 × 10–9, as shown in Figure 3C, when Lg increases, the GM of the system also changes from positive to negative, which means that the grid-connected inverter becomes unstable. Besides, when Lg varies, the resonant frequency of the system will shift, which affects the ability of the LCL resonant suppression. Another problem worthy of attention is that the bandwidth of the open-loop transfer function decreases with the increase of Lg. Taking Lg = 3 mH as an example, the bandwidth of the system is close to fundamental frequency, which may not maintain the inverter a good dynamic performance ().

Above all, both the control parameters and Lg affect the ability of the LCL resonant suppression and the performance of the LCL grid-connected inverter. Therefore, in order to ensure the stable operation of the system and improve the dynamic performance under the weak grid, a multi-constrain parameter design method for the active damping loop and current controller considering system bandwidth is proposed in Sections 3, 4.

3 Constraints of Active Damping and the Current Controller for the LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter

3.1 Stability, Resonance Suppression, and Gain Margin Constraints with the Variation of Grid Impedance

In order to ensure the effective operation of the LCL grid-connected inverter and make it have better stability and dynamic response performance, the parameters of the current controller and active damping loop for the grid-connected inverter need to meet certain constraints.

Based on (6), by the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, the constrain to ensure the system stability iswhere

Due to the existence of the delay GD(s), the resonant frequency ωres of the LCL filter will shift after adding the active damping control loop, note that as ωres'. Figure 4 can be obtained by equivalent transformation of Figure 2. With this representation, it immediately informs that a virtual impedance Zeq in parallel with filter capacitor C1 is introduced by the AD control loop. Zeq can be expressed as

FIGURE 4

Figure 5 shows the equivalent physical circuit of the LCL filter, where Zeq = Req//Xeq. Substitute s = jω into (9), the expressions of Req and Xeq are given in (10)

FIGURE 5

From Figure 5, the expression of ωres′ of the system after adding active damping iswhere

Generally, the gain of Gop (s = jω) should be less than 0dB at ωres′, which maintains the suppression ability for the resonant peak. Through making 20lg|Gop (s = jωres′)|≤0, Kp can be derived aswhere

Considering the phase of Gop (s = jω) is −180° at crossing frequency ωh, Gop (s = jω) is absolutely real at ωh. Making Im (Gop (s = jω)) = 0, the expression of ωh can be obtained as

The grid-connected inverter system needs to have a certain gain margin (GM) to ensure sufficient stability. We assume that the ideal gain margin is GM0 at ωh, which is generally 3dB (). In order to ensure GM ≥ GM0, the gain margin constraint of Kp iswhere

In , the maximum value of the grid impedance Lg is expressed aswhere Us is the root mean square of grid-connected voltage and IN is the root mean square of grid-connected current.

When the grid inductance Lg is in the range [0, Lg_max], in order to ensure that Kp simultaneously satisfies the three constraints in (7, 13, 16), Kp needs to be less than or equal to the minimum among them aswhich is

3.2 Phase Margin Constraint With the Variation of Grid Impedance

In addition, the system also needs to meet the phase margin (PM) requirement for good stability and dynamic performance, and the expression of PM isThen, the AD coefficient kad can be expressed as

Furthermore, the partial differential of kad with respect to PM is

In order to make the system parameter design reasonable, the cut-off frequency ωc should be smaller than ωres. From (23), the active damping parameter kad and the phase margin PM are in a monotonically decreasing relationship.

We assuming that the ideal phase margin is PM0, which is generally 45°. In order to ensure PM ≥ PM0, combining (22) with (23), kad needs to meetwhere

The partial derivative of kad′ (Lg, ωc) with respect to Lg in (25) can be obtained

According to (26), when <ωc<ωres′, kad′ (Lg, ωc) decreases monotonously with respect to Lg; when ωo<ωc≤ , kad′ (Lg, ωc) increases monotonously with respect to Lg. To make the phase margin of the system meet the requirements when Lg is in the range [0, Lg_max], kad needs to meet the following requirements:

Above all, the stability, resonance suppression, gain margin, and phase margin constraints with the variation of grid impedance are derived, ensuring that the system has a good performance while suppressing LCL resonance. Besides, under the weak grid, according to 7, 13, 16, and 25, the range of Kp is affected by kad and Lg, and the range of kad is affected by ωc and Lg. Considering the grid impedance Lg, the control parameters Kp and kad can be determined according to the requirements of the system for ωc which determines the bandwidth of the system.

4 Parameter Design for Active Damping and the Current Controller of the LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter

In order to maintain the grid-connected inverter, a good dynamic performance with the stability, resonance suppression, and gain margin and phase margin constraints in the weak grid, the bandwidth (ωc) of the system should be set to the maximal value considering the variation of the grid impedance.

According to the two cases in (27), Kp of the current controller and kad of the active damping loop are analyzed and solved at different ωc ranges.

4.1 Case I: <ωc<ωres′

From (27), in this case, if the phase margin of the system meets the requirements when Lg is in the range [0, Lg_max], kad needs to meetwhere

At ωc, the gain of the system open-loop transfer function equals to 1. By making |Gop (s = jωc)| = 1, Kp can be expressed aswhereand then when Lg = Lg_max, Kp = Kp(kad, Lg_max, ωc), Kp should also meet the constraint in (20) as

By solving (32), kad also needs to meetwhere

Substituting system parameters into (28, 33), when <ωc<ωres′, we get

Therefore, in this case, the active damping parameter kad that satisfies all constraints cannot be obtained.

4.2 Case II: ωo<ωc<

Similar to the analysis in case I, if the phase margin of the system meets the requirements when Lg is in the range [0, Lg_max], kad needs to meetwhereand then when Lg = 0, Kp = Kp(kad, 0, ωc), Kp should also meet the constraint in (20) as

By solving (38), kad also needs to meetwhere

Combining (37) with (40), the partial derivative of kad21 (ωc) and kad22 (ωc) with respect to Lg in (25) can be obtained

It can be seen from (41) that kad21 (ωc) decreases monotonously with respect to ωc, and kad22 (ωc) increases monotonously with respect to ωc. By solving kad21 (ωc) = kad22 (ωc), the expressions of optimal active damping parameter kad_opt and optimal proportional gain Kp_opt can be derived as

According to (18, 42) and system parameters in Table 2, the values of kad_opt and Kp_opt are respectively

TABLE 2

ParameterValue
Inverter-side inductor L12 mH
Grid-side inductor L21 mH
Filter capacitor C50 μF
DC-side Voltage Vdc300 V
Grid Voltage Us77 V (rms)
Rated Power P2 kW
Sampling frequency fs10 kHz

Parameters of the LCL grid-connected inverter.

Therefore, to maintain the system a good dynamic performance in the weak grid, considering the maximal bandwidth of the system in the weak grid, the optimal Kp and kad are derived from the stability, resonance suppression, and gain margin and phase margin constraints.

In order to realize digital control, it is necessary to discretize each part of the grid-connected inverter control system. Applying the ZOH z-transformation, the transfer function of the LCL filter in (4) can be given by

By the Tustin method with pre-warping, the transfer function of the PR controller in (1) can be transformed to Gc(z), which can be derived as

Gad(z) is the transfer function of the AD loop in the z-domain, by applying the backward-difference transformation to (2), Gad(z) can be described as

The expression of the open-loop transfer function of the LCL grid-connected inverter after discretization is

Based on (43) and system parameters in Table 2, Figure 6 shows the Bode plot for Gop(z) with Lg variation. It can be seen that the system can remain stable and have a sufficient margin and the bandwidth of the system is relatively large. When Lg = 0 mH, Lg = 1.5 mH, and Lg = 3 mH, the bandwidths of the system are 320, 250, and 205 Hz, respectively.

FIGURE 6

Compared with Figure 3, when the optimal parameters Kp and kad in (43) are applied considering the variation of Lg, not only can the constraint conditions in Section 3 be met to ensure the stable operation of the inverter but also a large bandwidth can be obtained to improve the dynamic performance.

5 Experimental Results

To verify the effectiveness of the parameter design method proposed in this paper under the weak grid, an experimental prototype of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter is built. The parameters of the experimental prototype are listed in Table 2. In the experimental platform, as shown in Figure 7A, a digital control system consists of a TMS320F28335 DSP and a EPM1270T CPLD. The DSP is applied for the implementation of the control algorithm mainly, which also completes the sampling of grid phase voltages and grid phase currents. Besides, the CPLD is used to arrange digital signals and realize protections for power switches. The photograph of the experimental platform is shown in Figure 7B, where the oscilloscope and power analyzer are Tektronix MDO3000 and HIOKI PW6001, respectively. By applying the proposed method and the methods in and , comparisons of the experimental results are shown in Figures 8–13.

FIGURE 7

FIGURE 8

, and (C) with the method in .

FIGURE 9

, and (C) with the method in .

FIGURE 10

, and (C) with the method in .

FIGURE 11

, and (C) with the method in .

FIGURE 12

, and (C) with the method in .

FIGURE 13

, and (C) with the method in .

Figures 8–10 (Lg = 0 mH, Lg = 1.5 mH, and Lg = 3 mH, respectively) show the steady-state experimental waveforms of the inverter against different grid impedances with the three methods, in which ia, ib, and ic are the three-phase grid currents and vpcca is the PCC voltage of phase A. It can be seen that when the grid impedance varies, the proposed method can achieve a better quality of grid currents for the inverter, and the THD of grid currents are 1.41, 1.66, and 1.63%, respectively, which satisfy the harmonic distortion standard () (IEEE Std. 519-2014) for the grid currents of the inverter. In addition, the THD result with the proposed method is lower than that with other two methods in and obviously.

Moreover, according to the THD results of the grid current, compared with other two methods in Ref and , when the proposed method is applied, the resonance peak (at 850 Hz in Figure 8, 750 Hz in Figure 9, and 650 Hz in Figure 10) around the LCL resonant frequency is suppressed more effectively under different grid impedance conditions, especially when Lg is 3 mH in Figure 10.

Furthermore, to demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method against different grid impedances, Figures 11–13 show the dynamic experimental waveforms of the inverter with the three methods when the current reference steps from half to full loads. In Figures 11A, 12A, 13A, supposing that Lg varies from 0 to 3 mH (0, 1.5, and 3 mH), the adjustment time Δt is 20, 23, and 31 ms, respectively, with the proposed method in this paper. The adjustment time with the other two methods in and is listed in Table 3, which shows the comparisons of the dynamic adjustment time with the three methods above. It can be seen that although the grid-connected inverter system can operate stably with the above three methods, the proposed method in this paper has a shorter adjustment time that is less than a fundamental frequency period against different grid impedances among the three methods.

TABLE 3

Grid conditionsAdjustment time
The proposed method in this paper (ms)The method in (ms)The method in (ms)
Lg = 0 mH102018
Lg = 1.5 mH122328
Lg = 3 mH133134

Comparison of dynamic performances with the three methods.

Above all, according to comparisons of experimental results with the three methods against different grid impedances, the proposed method can obtain the optimal proportional gain Kp of the PR controller and the AD coefficient kad of the AD loop for the LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter system, which maintains that the inverter system achieves better grid current quality, and the resonance peak of the LCL filter is suppressed more effectively under weak grid conditions. Besides, the experimental results show that the dynamic adjustment time of the proposed method is shortened obviously, which illustrates a better dynamic performance of the grid-connected inverter system.

6 Conclusion

In order to improve the stability and dynamic performance of the three-phase LCL-filtered grid-connected inverter under the weak grid, based on the PR controller and active damping with only grid current feedback, a control parameter design method with multi-constrains considering system bandwidth for the inverter is proposed in this paper. According to the stability constraint, resonance suppression constraint, and margin constraint, the maximal bandwidth of the system with variation of Lg is considered, which can ensure a better dynamic performance of the grid-connected inverter under the weak grid. Besides, the proposed method realizes resonance suppression more effectively and maintains a better performance for the inverter, compared with other two methods. With the parameters obtained from the proposed method, the experimental results show the better dynamic performance of the LCL filter in the weak grid with different grid impedances as well as the better steady-state performance and more effective resonance suppression.

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Author contributions

Theoretical promotion and manuscript edition, FW and JL; theoretical analysis and experiment, ZS and WX; simulation and analysis, ZL. All authors contributed to manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.

Funding

This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant: 20KJB470029).

Conflict of interest

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Nomenclature

  • AD

    active damping

  • C1

    capacitor in the LCL filter

  • fs

    sampling frequency

  • G1

    transfer function from ui(s) to i2(s) for the LCL filter

  • Gad

    transfer function of the AD loop

  • Gc

    proportional resonance controller

  • Gcl

    closed-loop transfer function of the system

  • GD

    total time delay model

  • GM

    gain margin

  • GM0

    ideal gain margin

  • Gop

    open-loop transfer function of the system

  • i1

    Inverter-side currents in the LCL filter

  • i2

    grid-side currents in the LCL filter

  • ia, ib, ic

    three-phase grid currents

  • IN

    root mean square of grid current

  • kad

    aD coefficient

  • kad_opt

    optimal AD parameter

  • Kpwm

    gain of the PWM inverter

  • Kp

    proportional gain of the PR controller

  • Kp_opt

    optimal proportional gain of the PR controller

  • Kr

    resonant gain of the PR controller

  • L1

    inverter-side inductor in the LCL filter

  • L2

    grid-side inductor in the LCL filter

  • Lg

    grid impedance

  • Lg_max

    maximum grid impedance

  • PCC

    point of common coupling

  • PM

    phase margin

  • PM0

    ideal phase margin

  • Req

    virtual resistance in parallel with filter capacitor C1

  • SCR

    short-circuit ratio

  • Ts

    sampling period

  • ui

    inverter output voltage

  • Us

    root mean square of grid voltage

  • Vdc

    DC-bus voltage

  • vpcca

    PCC voltage of phase A

  • Xeq

    virtual reactance in parallel with filter capacitor C1

  • Zeq

    virtual impedance in parallel with filter capacitor C1

  • Δt

    adjustment time

  • ωc

    cutoff angular frequency of the system

  • ωc_max

    maximum cutoff frequency of system

  • ωh

    crossing frequency

  • ωi

    cutoff angular frequency of the PR controller

  • ωo

    grid fundamental angular frequency

  • ωres

    resonant frequency of the LCL filter

  • ωres′

    actual resonant frequency considering the AD loop

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Keywords

weak grid, dynamic performance, LCL filter, active damping, grid current control

Citation

Wu F, Sun Z, Xu W, Li Z and Lyu J (2022) A Control Parameters Design Method With Multi-Constrains for an LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Inverter in a Weak Grid. Front. Energy Res. 9:798793. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.798793

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20 October 2021

Accepted

16 December 2021

Published

13 January 2022

Volume

9 - 2021

Edited by

Ningyi Dai, University of Macau, China

Reviewed by

Yushuai Li, University of Oslo, Norway

Xi Lu, Southeast University, China

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*Correspondence: Jianguo Lyu,

This article was submitted to Smart Grids, a section of the journal Frontiers in Energy Research

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