**Ke Jiang, Feng Wu \*, Linjun Shi and Keman Lin**

College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China; jiaohuang051@163.com (K.J.); eec@hhu.edu.cn (L.S.); linkeman@hhu.edu.cn (K.L.)

**\*** Correspondence: wufeng@hhu.edu.cn; Tel.: +86-153-0518-7449

Received: 12 May 2020; Accepted: 16 June 2020; Published: 20 June 2020

**Abstract:** In this paper, a distributed hierarchical consensus algorithm is proposed to solve the economic dispatch (ED) problem for the isolated AC/DC hybrid microgrid. At first, the whole nodes of the AC/DC hybrid microgrid are divided into two parts, that is, the leadership layer nodes and the tracking layer nodes. The leadership layer nodes update the data through their own feedback elements, while the tracking layer nodes receive the information from the leadership layer nodes and update the data. After several iterations, the two different layer nodes obtain the same state, which realizes the dynamic active power balance of the whole AC/DC microgrid. Besides, the AC sub-grid and DC sub-grid can also realize the power balance by the proposed algorithm, and the energy storage units will absorb or release active power to meet the power demand in the respective section. In addition, the constraints of the nodes are also taken into account to guarantee that the power nodes in the AC/DC hybrid microgrid should operate within their own limitations, which is necessary to realize the ED for the considered hybrid microgrid. Finally, case study and simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed hierarchal method.

**Keywords:** isolated AC/DC hybrid microgrid; two-layer consensus method; dynamic economic dispatch; distributed hierarchical strategy
