An energy storage system is critical for the safe and stable operation of a microgrid (MG) and has a promising prospect in future power system. Economical and safe operation of storage system is of great significance to MGs. This paper presents an improved management strategy for lithium battery storage by establishing a battery depreciation cost model and employing a practical charging/dischar...

Abstract: In the traditional paradigm, large power plants provide active and reactive power required for the transmission system and the distribution network purchases grid power from it. However, with more and more distributed energy resources (DERs) connected at distribution levels, it is necessary to schedule DERs to meet their demand and participate in the electricity markets at the distrib...

Acknowledgements I would like to take this space to express my gratitude to the people who made this thesis possible. I express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor professor Dr. Zita A. Vale for all the provided means she gave me to execute this thesis and all the positive energy, productive discussions and exceptional assistance. I greatly appreciate her constant tolerance and expended time ...

The world is facing major challenges related to global warming and emissions of greenhouse gases a causing factor. In 2017, energy industries accounted for 46% all CO2 globally, which shows large potential reduction. This paper proposes novel short-term forecast enable intelligent scheduling flexible electricity consumption minimize the resulting emissions. Two proposed time series decompositio...

Distributed energy resources (DER) based microgrid system integration over conventional grids at remote or isolated locations has many potential benefits in minimizing the effects of global warming. However, this emerging technology brings challenges such as high capital costs, stable performance, uncertainties, operation, maintenance, and management issues. This research introduces an island w...

The development of advanced metering technologies makes demand response (DR) able to provide fast response services, e.g., primary frequency control. It is recognized that DR can contribute to the primary frequency control like thermal generators. This paper proposes a day-ahead scheduling method that considers DR as a frequency control resource, so that the DR resources can be dispatched prope...

Look-ahead dynamic inter-processor connection reconfiguration is a multi-processor architectural model, which has been proposed to eliminate connection reconfiguration time overheads. It consists in preparing link connections in advance in parallel with program execution. An application program is partitioned into sections, which are executed using redundant communication resources. Parallel pr...

In this paper, an agent-based structure of the electricity retail market is presented based on which day-ahead (DA) energy procurement for customers is modeled. Here, we focus on operation of only one Retail Energy Provider (REP) agent who purchases energy from DA pool-based wholesale market and offers DA real time tariffs to a group of its customers. As a model of customer response to the offe...