Multiagent System for Priority-Based Load Shedding in Microgrid

The electricity consumption in the world is constantly increasing, and our lives become more and more dependent on electricity. There are several new paradigms proposed in the field of power grid. In Japan, especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, the new power system paradigms are expected to be more resilient to survive several difficulties during a disaster situation. In this paper, we focus on microgrid and propose a new multiagent-based load shedding scheme and multiagent architecture to realize the resilient power grid. We developed a prototype system to evaluate our scheme, and performed an evaluation of our proposals. The result of the evaluation shows the effectiveness of our proposals, despite of the physical uncertainty.