Abstract
In this paper, a robust energy management solution which will facilitate the optimum and economic control of energy flows throughout a microgrid network is proposed. The increased penetration of renewable energy sources is highly intermittent in nature; the proposed solution demonstrates highly efficient energy management. This study enables precise management of power flows by forecasting of renewable energy generation, estimating the availability of energy at storage batteries, and invoking the appropriate mode of operation, based on the load demand to achieve efficient and economic operation. The predefined mode of operation is derived out of an expert rule set and schedules the load and distributed energy sources along with utility grid.
Highlights
The traditional bulk power generation, transmission and distribution system is facing a lot of technological challenges to fulfil the growing demand and increased penetration of distributed energy resources
The energy management control algorithm has been programmed in the PLC
Detailed testing has been done to validate the performance of energy management system (EMS) under different load and source operating conditions
Summary
The traditional bulk power generation, transmission and distribution system is facing a lot of technological challenges to fulfil the growing demand and increased penetration of distributed energy resources. The need has arisen for distributed generation which can co-exist with existing bulk power networks [1]. Microgrids employ environmentally benign energy sources like solar, wind, and fuel cells [3]. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS), the rest of the are supplied directly either from the into secure and non-secure loads [7]. All secure loads are loads supplied from an uninterruptible power utility grid or while from distributed energy sources (DES) [8,9]. All the sources loads are supply (UPS), the rest of the loads are supplied directly either from and the utility gridconnected or from through appropriate circuit(DES). The main controller receives active power, and output the EMSsources, is shown in and
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