Electric power interchange between micro-grids by using multi-agent approach

Author

Nagata, Takeshi ; Okamoto, K.

Author_Institution

Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Hiroshima, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

18-22 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

55

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent based electric power interchange method between micro-grids (MGs). The proposed multi-agent system consists of eight types of agent: single micro virtual power plant agent (MVPP), single Micro Grid controller agent (MGC), Load agents (LAGs), gas-turbines (gas-engine) agents (GAGs), photovoltaic generation agents (PVAGs), wind-turbine generation agents (WTAGs), battery agents (BAGs), and single grid agent (GridAG). In the proposed system, MVPP plays as an important role, which facilitates the electric power interchange between MAGs. From the simulation results, it can be seen the proposed multi-agent system could improve the load factor and reduce the MG operation cost.

Keywords

control engineering computing; cost reduction; distributed power generation; gas turbines; multi-agent systems; photovoltaic power systems; power distribution economics; power engineering computing; power generation economics; virtualisation; wind power plants; wind turbines; BAG; GAG; GridAG; LAG; MGC; MVPP; PVAG; WTAG; battery agent; electric power interchange; gas-engine agent; gas-turbine agent; load agent; load factor; multiagent approach; operation cost reduction; photovoltaic generation agent; single grid agent; single micro virtual power plant agent; single microgrid controller agent; wind-turbine generation agent; Batteries; Engines; Generators; Photovoltaic systems; Power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CoASE.2014.6899303

Filename

6899303