Inter-connected Microgrids (IMGs) have emerged as a promising structure for future grids, offering resilience and independence in energy exchangeability with neighbours. To enable such interconnected structure, an market between individual (MGs) participating via agent (i.e., Energy Management System [EMS]) is required. Each Self-Benefit-Driven (SBD), which means that it works the best interest...

<span>An efficient procedure for defining the boundaries of microgrids in smart distribution systems during distributed generation expansion planning becomes an important consideration constructing grids. A novel approach named "Modified Reverse Current Flow Method" is proposed this paper to split a large radial system into required number self-adequate microgrids. This cluster will be ca...

In recent years, microgrids, i.e., disconnected distribution systems, have received increasing interest from power system utilities to support the economic and resiliency posture of their systems. The economics of long distance transmission lines prevent many remote communities from connecting to bulk transmission systems and these communities rely on off-grid microgrid technology. Furthermore,...

A set of power generators and loads is considered a microgrid if, in comparison to larger power systems, they are smaller and have lower ratings and capacities. An islanded microgrid is a microgrid that is not connected to a larger power system. Generally, ac power systems have three main objections. First, they must always balance power generation with demand. Secondly, they must regulate freq...

This paper proposes a distributed optimization model for community microgrids considering the building thermal dynamics and customer comfort preference. The microgrid central controller (MCC) minimizes the total cost of operating the community microgrid, including fuel cost, purchasing cost, battery degradation cost and voluntary load shedding cost based on the customers’ consumption, while the...

Introduction A number of distributed energy trends add up to increased interest in microgrids. The objectives and value propositions include access to renewable resources for energy and environment, a more resilient electricity supply amidst storms, optimized energy use by local generation and by local control. Individually these objectives are already being served in various applications and w...

Scheduling of multi-microgrids (MMGs) is one of the important tasks in MMG operation and it faces new challenges as the integration of demand response (DR) programs and renewable generation (wind and solar) sources increases. In order to address these challenges, robust optimization (RO)-based scheduling has been proposed in this paper considering uncertainties in both renewable energy sources ...

The customer domain of the smart grid naturally blends with smart home and smart building systems, but typical proposed approaches are “distributor-centric” rather than “customer-centric,” undermining user acceptance, and are often poorly scalable. To solve this problem, we propose a detailed architecture and an implementation of a “last-meter” smart grid—the portion of the smart grid on custom...

Van-Hai Bui 1, Akhtar Hussain 1 and Hak-Man Kim 1,2,* 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Incheon National University, 12-1 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406840, Korea; [email protected] (V.-H.B.); [email protected] (A.H.) 2 Research Institute for Northeast Asian Super Grid, Incheon National University, 12-1 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406840, Korea * Correspondence: hmkim@i...