Distributed energy management under smart grid plug-and-play operations

With the increasing penetration of distributed generation, the plug-and-play energy resources or energy storage devices will become a required functionality of future power systems. Effective distributed control algorithms could be embedded in distributed controllers to allocate energy among the generating systems economically when a plug-and-play operation is performed. The Incremental Cost Consensus (ICC) algorithm can solve this kind of Economic Dispatch Problem (EDP) in a distributed fashion. Several case studies are presented to demonstrate the performance of the ICC algorithm under smart grid plug-and-play operations.