This research article considers a microgrid (MG) with various distributed generation sources (DGs) such as microturbine (MT), fuel cell (FC), wind turbine (WT), and solar cell (PV) along with the battery storage system. This article aims to simultaneously minimize operational costs and emissions for a daily schedule, while considering uncertainties such as load demand, market prices, and electricity generated by different renewable energy sources (RESs). This article proposes the slime mould algorithm (SMA) to solve this complex optimization problem. Initially, SMA is tested for three scenarios considering the minimization of operational cost and emission, respectively, as two single objectives. In Scenario A, a reduction of 1.95% in operational cost and 4.57% in emissions is observed compared to the Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA). In scenarios B and C, SMA reduces operational cost by 0.78% and 2.65%, respectively, while also reducing emissions by 6.27% and 0.28%, respectively, when compared to GOA. The results obtained by other algorithms are worse than those obtained by GOA. This study also showed that SMA effectively considers multi-objective functions by using the weighted sum method and the fuzzy decision-maker to approach the Pareto-optimal solution, achieving a good tradeoff between operational cost and emissions in each scenario.
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