Theses and Dissertations Collection

One of the goals of this thesis is to implement a load shedding scheme, within a microgrid, to drop the lowest priority load when demand is about to become greater than the supply. Another goal is to implement a battery controller that communicate with the battery when to charge, when to discharge, and how much to discharge. By doing this critical loads could be kept online and would not have to become a shed load.

This research project successfully designed and tested a load shedding scheme in RSCAD to keep critical loads online, as well as adding a battery controller to help keep loads from being shed when possible. This controller included commands such as when to charge, when to discharge, and how much to discharge. By doing these things a large portion of the microgrid area has been shown to continue to have power in the event of a blackout that could last anywhere from minutes to days.