Multi-battery management under real-time pricing for industrial facility applications

This paper proposes a real time control strategy of battery systems in the frame of dynamically varying energy pricing. The battery, which is supposed to operate in a large industrial facility, is managed in order to reduce the daily costs sustained by the industry owner for the energy consumption. Multi-battery configurations are taken into account and an optimization model is formulated and solved including technical constraints that guarantee an adequate storage-system behavior. A numerical application based on real data of an industrial facility located in the South of Italy demonstrates the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed procedure.