A Novel Real-Time Energy Management Strategy for Grid-Supporting Microgrid: Enabling Flexible Trading Power

TL;DR

This paper introduces a real-time energy management strategy for microgrids that optimizes DERs and enables flexible power trading to support the main grid's reliability and resilience.

Contribution

It proposes a novel two-step optimization strategy for grid-supporting microgrids to manage DERs and facilitate flexible power trading, enhancing grid stability.

Findings

Enables microgrids to support the main grid through flexible trading.

Improves grid reliability and resilience via optimized DER management.

Demonstrates effectiveness through numerical simulations.

Abstract

In recent years, there has been significant growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) penetration in the power grid. The stochastic and intermittent features of variable DERs such as roof top photovoltaic (PV) bring substantial uncertainties to the grid on the consumer end and weaken the grid reliability. In addition, the fact that numerous DERs are widespread in the grid makes it hard to monitor and manage DERs. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a novel real-time grid-supporting energy management (GSEM) strategy for grid-supporting microgrid (MG). This strategy can not only properly manage DERs in a MG but also enable DERs to provide grid services, which enables a MG to be grid-supporting via flexible trading power. The proposed GSEM strategy is based on a 2-step optimization which includes a routine economic dispatch (ED) step and an acceptable trading power range determination step. Numerical simulations demonstrate the performance of the proposed GSEM strategy which enables the grid operator to have a dispatch choice of trading power with MG and enhance the reliability and resilience of the main grid.