Agent based coordination of distributed energy storage devices in future distribution grids

Abstract

Due to the increasing share of distributed energy resources, which will be integrated into the electrical grid within the next decades, innovative grid structures and management concepts are required to ensure a reliable supply of electrical energy in the future. The integration of energy storage devices will become more and more important in this context to ensure the stability of the electrical system. Within this paper, an energy storage management system will be presented, which uses the multi agent system approach to coordinate distributed energy storage devices in future distributions grids. Thereby, the storage devices operate in a virtual energy storage. The agent based realization of the virtual energy storage, as well as its application will be presented in this paper. Thereby, a case study is used to demonstrate the suitability of the agent based management of several energy storage devices in future distribution grids.