Smart Grid refers to an intelligent grid that employs modern information and telecommunication technologies to meet the challenges relating to the power delivery in the future. These challenges are due to, among others, increased use of renewable energy and power supply reliability requirements of modern digital society. In order to fully realise the Smart Grids a new kind of approach for the p...

For the management of a (micro)-smart grid it is important to know the patters of the load profiles and of the generators. In this article the power consumption data obtained through a monitoring activity developed on a micro-smart grid in an agro-industrial test-site are presented. In particular, this reports the synthesis of the monitoring results of 5 loads (5 industrial machineries for crop...

The traditional approach in electric generation is focused on centralized plants producing electricity which is transmitted and distributed over long distances through the networks. In contrast, using distributed energy resources, much smaller amounts of energy are produced by numerous small, modular energy conversion units, which are often located close to the point of use. Therefore, Distribu...

The demand for high quality electricity and growing electricity consumption has been caused by increasing electrification of daily life causes and the rising number of sensitive or critical loads. Due to the rapid increase in global energy consumption and the diminishing of fossil fuels, the customer demand for new generation capacities and efficient energy production, delivery and utilization ...

Today’s electricity grid is evolving into the smart grid which ought to be reliable, flexible, efficient, and sustainable. To fulfill these requirements, the smart grid draws on a plenty of core technologies. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). These technologies facilitate easy and fast accumulation of different data, e.g. fine-grained meter readings. Various security and privacy concerns ...

E-mail address: [email protected]; [email protected] Abstract This article presents the development of an optimized droop controller of microgrid during islanding using artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA). This is necessary in order to minimize the frequency deviation that occurs when microgrid switches to stand-alone mode or when there are changes or variation in loads. The optimize...

The need of reducing CO2 emissions in electricity generation field for solving global warming problems have led to increase the interest in Micro-Grid (MG) especially the one which included renewable sources. MG normally operates in normal interconnected mode and connects with the main grid. When a large disturbance happens in main grid, MG transfer to islanding mode. This paper deals with conn...

The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, uses two-way flows of electricity and information to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery network. In this article, we survey the literature till 2011 on the enabling technologies for the Smart Grid. We explore three major systems, namely the smart infrastructure system, the smart management system, and the smart prote...

In this paper we consider grid connected solar micro-grid system which contains a consumer, a solar photovoltaic system and a battery. The consumer is considered as an agent who continuously interacts with the environment and learns to take best actions. Initially Multi Agent System is implemented for effective energy management of solar micro-grid. Then reinforcement learning is imparted to th...