Dynamic Optimisation for Power Dispatch in Microgrids

The increasing growth of non-dispatchable renewable energy sources (RES) such as solar and wind and the upcoming plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) makes the secure power dispatch a challenging optimisation. In this paper, a coordinated power dispatch strategy in microgrids with a battery management system is proposed. The power dispatch strategy dynamically fits the power production to the power demand by appropriately dispatching the controllable distributed energy resources (DER). A strategy is presented where an active battery scheduling system includes the load and generation profiles of the microgrid and the electricity prices of the spot market in order to maximise the microgrid revenue.