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The goal of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the Perfect Power Smart Grid Prototype at Illinois Institute of Technology, while highlighting some of the multi-agent system applications. The Perfect Power Prototype is supported by the Department of Energy under the Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration Program, which focuses on effectively integrating distributed resources (including...
The need for improving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions, as well as restructuring of energy markets has favoured the increase of distributed energy system (DES). To promote the development of DES, theoretical researches on DES and its influencing factors are required. This paper describes an Agent-based modeling framework for the development conditions of DES from an economic perspective...
In the energy management of a small power system, the scheduling of the generation units is a crucial problem for which adequate methodologies can maximize the performance of the energy supply. This paper proposes an innovative methodology for distributed energy resources management. The optimal operation of distributed generation, demand response and storage resources is formulated as a mixed-integer...
Distribution utility purchases power in multi-periods, and the decision-making at risk before this period must affect that the distribution utility makes decision to this period. For this reason, Multi-period conditional value at risk (CVaR) is used to measure the dynamic risk when distribution utility purchases power and the decision-making of power purchase are dynamically revised by Bayesian methods...
A framework is proposed for an electrical power microgrid, such as for a colony or small township of homes that generate electrical power from solar energy and use it directly when possible, and via stored battery power at other times. The situation is described as a demand and supply problem in a multi-agent system with many consumers and suppliers and no explicit communication or coordination among...
Demand Side Management (DSM) programs consist of the scheduling, planning, executing and monitoring activities of load demand in such a way to ensure the load side management at utilities as well as consumers' levels. The main objective of DSM is optimizing the utilization of available electricity. In developing countries like Pakistan the importance of DSM has increased significantly due to considerable...
Although the financial crisis shrinks oil price, human as an entire race still face the future of a hot, flat and crowded world [1]. Therefore, a critical transformation from our traditional energy consumption manner of fossil fuel combustion must be made. After years of endeavor in research and experiment, a number of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has already become technically available as alternatives...
Sustainable development concerns made renewable energy sources to be increasingly used for electricity distributed generation. However, this is mainly due to incentives or mandatory targets determined by energy policies as in European Union. Assuring a sustainable future requires distributed generation to be able to participate in competitive electricity markets. To get more negotiation power in the...
Due to the increased proportion of small renewable energy sources in a distributed setting (DG-RES), active control of small distributed energy producing and consuming systems will play an important role in future electricity grids [1]. These distributed energy resources have production patterns, which are either partially stochastic (e.g. wind, solar cells) or are coupled to the primary user process...
To realize the emerging potential of Distributed Generation (DG), a system approach which views generation and associated loads as microgrids is becoming a promising solution for the future power infrastructure. However, DG implies unpredictability of the energy production, in addition to the unpredictability of energy consumption. On the purpose of matching electricity supply and demand, an agent-based...
Micro cogeneration technology (micro-CHP) is expected to be an important novel residential heating technology for the future in certain countries around the world. The interesting aspect of micro-CHP is that it is a controllable distributed generation technology. This paper provides novel conceptual insight into how micro-CHP systems can be controlled aggregatedly in virtual power plants (VPPs). Cost...
Recently electricity generation from wind power has been increasingly popular worldwide. This paper proposes an adaptive protection and control strategy for interfacing the wind-powered distributed generators into the utility power distribution grids. The requirements for the interfacing are defined according to the IEEE-1547 standards. This paper presents the adaptive interfacing controls and protections...
Recently increased use of network-enabled devices in power systems, rapid development of distributed generations from renewable energy resources, and government-imposed open access competition have resulted utilities in greater reliance on computer networks for proper power grid operations. This paper proposes a new two-level architecture for power-grid computer networks and to strength the networks'...
Distributed energy resources will provide a significant amount of the electricity generation and will be a normal profitable business. In the new decentralized grid, customers will be among the many decentralized players and may even help to co-produce the required energy services such as demand-side management and load shedding. So, they will gain the opportunity to be more active market players...
The PowerMatcher concept developed at ECN has proven its value in the coordination of demand and supply of electricity in different settings with respect to distributed generation and accommodation of renewable energy resources. The concept has been applied in several field tests and simulations at various levels in the power system. The agent based technology on which the PowerMatcher is built has...
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