Microgrid management based on economic and technical criteria

Microgrids have gained much attention in recent years thanks to the promise of enabling enhanced energy load demand management and thus, combined with DER, optimizing energy resources allocation while decreasing the investment in underutilized infrastructures. Still, many aspects must progress in order to enable their full deployment, regulatory and technical. In this paper we focus on microgrid management in scenarios belonging to a unique stakeholder and propose a two level architecture and a novel combination of optimization algorithms to exploit the different control capabilities of the envisioned devices (schedulable, dimmable and thermal-like), including RES and electric vehicle fleets. The results from the simulation of three different scenarios encourage the use of these devices and provide technological and economical insight.