Comparison of Two Approaches of Resolving Power Sharing Error in Droop Based DC Microgrids

DC microgrids have gained extensive attention in the recent years.In the islanded mode of operationpower sharing between sources is required. The power sharing usually is provided by employing P-V droop characteristicswhile the voltage local property results in power sharing error. In this paper two decentralized approaches for resolving power sharing error are studied and compared. Inthefirst approach, sources employ proper virtual resistance. In second approach, droop characteristics are realized in the Point of Common Coupling (PCC). It isshown that by using second approach,the voltage drop is reduced and equally the voltage quality is improved. It isdiscussed that the reason is bypassing the voltage drop associated with the sources output resistancein the second approach.Time domain simulations of a test DC microgrid are provided to verify the results.