Development of An Energy Management System Tool for Disaster Resilience in Islanded Microgrid Networks

As disasters continue to become common around the world, the reliability of power systems is increasingly becoming critical. Researchers continue to explore the inclusion of distributed energy resources (DERs), specifically smart microgrids into traditional power system designs to improve their reli...

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Main Authors: Mumbere, Samuel Kihembo, Fukuhara, Atsushi, Sasaki, Yutaka, Bedawy, Ahmed, Zoka, Yoshifumi, Yorino, Naoto
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Business continuity plan
Energy Management System
Load shedding
Microgrid
Microgrids
Photovoltaic Power
Photovoltaic systems
Power system reliability
Reliability engineering
Resilience
Smart grids
Storage battery
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Summary:As disasters continue to become common around the world, the reliability of power systems is increasingly becoming critical. Researchers continue to explore the inclusion of distributed energy resources (DERs), specifically smart microgrids into traditional power system designs to improve their reliability. Smart microgrids possess characteristic advantages of energy storage, off-grid operation, and control flexibility. In this regard, we explore load shedding of noncritical loads as a solution to extending the uptime of a group of interconnected microgrids that have been islanded after a disaster. Load shedding and Photovoltaic (PV) Curtailment are implemented as an addition to our previously proposed energy management systems (EMS) for each prosumer (PR) in the network. The proposed method shows that the proposed control methods can prolong uptime in the interconnected off-grid network of microgrid.
ISSN:2643-6175
DOI:10.1109/ISCIT52804.2021.9590605