With the popularity of different power generators in an electric micro-grid system, their operation scheduling as the load demand changes becomes an important task. Besides satisfying load balance constraint and generator’s rated power, several other practicalities, such a limited use of grid power and restricted ramping of power output from generators, arise and must be considered during the o...

Micro Grid is a contracted distributed AC or DC network. Micro Grid resources are connected to the distributed linear as well as nonlinear loads through power electronics converter to provide an efficient, more reliable and quality power to the distributed loads with reduced co2 emission. Consequently makes full use of low cost generation resources and reduce waste. Interconnected Mode in the M...

Micro energy grids have many merits and promising applications under the smart grid vision. There are demanding procedures for their optimal planning and performance enhancement. One of the key features of a micro energy grid is its ability to separate and isolate itself from the main electrical network to continue feeding its own islanded portion. In this paper, an optimal sizing and operation...

In power systems, although the inertia energy in power sources can partly cover power unbalances caused by load disturbance or renewable energy fluctuation, it is still hard to maintain the frequency deviation within acceptable ranges. However, with the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technique, electric vehicles (EVs) can act as mobile energy storage units, which could be a solution for load frequency c...

Complex circuitry of electronic infrastructure of compact micro-grids with multiple renewable energy sources feeding the loads using parallel operation of inverters acts as a deterrent in developing such systems. This paper deals with applicable techniques reducing the driving circuits in parallel power inverters used in micro-grid system (MGS), mainly focused on the distributed generation (DG)...

Facing the recent growing concern about the environment and electric power crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, efficient use of energy has become an important issue. A smart grid that is a next-generation electric power network is expected to be one of the solutions and to form an enormous market. Aiming to enter this new smart grid market, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. es...

Although Smart Grids may represent the solution to the limits of nowadays Power Grid, the turnover may not occur in the next future yet due the complex nature of energy distribution. Thus, as a more short term effort, to improve the responsiveness of the energy demand to the power grid load, more and more energy providers apply dynamic pricing schemes for grid users. Believing that dynamic pric...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Micro-grid is a novel conceptual power system for smooth installation of many Distributed Generators which is used for distributing the power in order to provide high quality. The most of micro-grids adopt ac distribution as well as conventional po...