Optimal Energy Management in Microgrids Equipped with Distributed Generation

[ISSN: 2045-7057] www.ijmse.org 10  Abstract—In recent years, the problem of optimal energy management has become a global concern all across the world. In this regard, this paper investigates the optimal scheduling of energy sources in microgrids taking into consideration distributed energy sources. In the presented paper Distributed Generation (DG) includes Micro-Turbines (MTs) as well as Fuel Cell (FC) generating units. This problem has been modeled as a singleobjective optimization problem while the energy procurement cost is taken as the objective function. The model is implemented in General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) and solved using CONOPT solver, since the problem is proposed in a Non-Linear Programming (NLP) framework. Furthermore, simulation has been done on a 34-bus distribution test system to verify the performance of the proposed model.