Simulation of energy consumption in a microgrid for demand side management by scheduling

Energy management systems (EMS) are necessary when smart grids and microgrids are considered. Simulation of energy consumption is very useful in planning and testing such systems. In this article we present the problems of simulating energy consumption and show concept of a very general load simulator. The simulator can generate time series of consumption from fixed profiles and also from the defined rules describing use of energy by the devices. The rules describe the probabilistic distribution of the device behaviour. The architecture of the implementation is also presented.