The EU has set ambitious targets for an energy transition. While research often focuses on technology, institutions or actors, a transition requires complex coordination and comprehensive analysis and design. We propose a framework accounting for technology, institutions and actors’ perspective to design in socio-technical systems. We present its application, firstly, to biodiesel production in...

When several microgrids (MG) are interconnected into microgrid clusters (MGC), they have great potential to improve their reliability. Traditional droop control tends to make the total operating costs higher as the power is distributed by capacity ratios of distributed energy resources (DERs). This paper proposes an adaptive distributed economic control for islanded microgrids which considers l...

In this paper a new methodology for determining the optimal level of automation in microgrids is proposed. In traditional distribution networks, automation is referred to the management of the fault in a more efficiently manner especially in medium voltage (MV) distribution network in order to improve the network reliability indices by reduction of average outage duration per consumer and meanw...

Microgrids work in two modes, grid connected and islanded. Short circuit levels in islanded mode tend to be small compared to those in grid-connected mode. Moreover, power flows in microgrids are not always unidirectional. For these reasons, it is difficult to protect microgrids using relaying strategies traditionally used in distribution systems. In this paper, a new technique is presented whi...

This article presents the development of a platform for real-time monitoring multi-microgrids. A small-scale has been developed and implemented as prototype, which takes data from various types devices located at distance each other. The is interoperable, it allows several protocols to coexist. While prototype tested on distributed energy resources (DERs), done in way extend concept microgrids ...

Microgrids are nowadays used to produce electric energy with more efficiency and advantage. However, the use of microgrids presents some challenges. One of the main problems of the microgrids widely used in electrical power systems is the control of voltage, frequency and load sharing balance among inverter- based distributed generators (DGs) in islanded mode. Droop method performance degra...

Multi-energy hybrid AC/DC microgrids (MGs), considering ice storage systems (ISSs), can promote the flexible integration and efficient utilization of distributed generators (DGs) energy (ESSs), provide a reliable power supply for local loads, achieve multi-energy complementarity savings at same time. An autonomous cooperative control MGs is proposed in this paper, which realize following target...

Since the limited power capacity, finite inertia, and dynamic loads make the shipboard power system (SPS) vulnerable, the automatic reconfiguration for failure recovery in SPS is an extremely significant but still challenging problem. It is not only required to operate accurately and optimally, but also to satisfy operating constraints. In this paper, we consider the reconfiguration optimizatio...

This article presents an overview of Ipseity, an open-source platform developed in C++ with the Qt framework. The current version of the platform includes a set of plugins implementing single-agent and multi-agent environments, hardcoded controllers based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, classical Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques like Q-Learning, Sarsa, Epsilon-Greedy combined ...