ORCID
- Malabika Basu: 0000-0002-7707-8944
Abstract
Now-a-days, DC microgrids (DCMGs) are gaining significant traction due to their higher reliability, simpler control strategies and the absence of challenges like synchronisation, harmonics, reactive power regulation, and frequency control. However, integrating various and distributed energy resources in the same DC bus complicates the regulation of the DC bus voltage and power sharing. Various DCMG design architectures have been proposed to enhance power availability, efficiency, and reliability. These architectures usually can be classified into four main types, i.e., single bus, multi-bus, bipolar bus, and reconfigurable bus topologies. Diverse control strategies, including centralised, decentralised, distributed, and hierarchical control with different architectures, are proposed to ensure the safe and secure functioning of DCMGs. Despite this progress, a comprehensive design procedure for the existing DCMG architectures from the dynamic stability and control perspective has not yet been thoroughly analysed. This study reviews the topological and control architectures of current DCMGs and provides detailed design procedures for their state space modelling, stability analysis, and real-time implementation. Additionally, this study identifies areas for future research in DC microgrid design and control, which readers can explore to better understand the current state of this field and future needs.
Keywords
DC microgrid (MG) topology, MG cluster, Stability analysis, Transient analysis
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Publication Date
2025-01-01
Publication Title
Energy Strategy Reviews
Volume
62
ISSN
2211-467X
Deposit Date
2026-05-01
Funding
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Sandipan Patra reports financial support was provided by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This work is part of the SuHSI (23/RDD/1034) projects, and the authors in IERC thankfully acknowledge the support from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.
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Recommended Citation
Patra, Sandipan; Basu, Malabika; and Khadem, Shafi, "From design to deployment: A holistic perspective on design frameworks, stability analysis, and control innovations of DC microgrid architectures" (2025). Research Outputs: 2025-Present. 6.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/engschelero/6