Towards a real-time Energy Management System for a Microgrid using a multi-objective genetic algorithm

Abstract

This paper proposes a real-time Energy Management System (EMS) for a low voltage (LV) Microgrid (MG). The system operation consists in solving the Unit Commitment (UC) and Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) simultaneously for 24 hours ahead at every 15-minute period. This operation is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem where the minimization of operational cost, total emissions and power losses is simultaneously pursued using the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). In this algorithm, crossover and mutation operators were improved with respect to existing approaches to achieve an adequate characterization of the energy management problem and a good algorithm performance. Simulation studies have outlined that, in fact, the NSGA-II can be used as a real-time optimization tool providing a good-quality Pareto front to operate optimally the MG in a limited time of 15 minutes.Index Terms-Energy management system; economic dispatch; evolutionary algorithm; multi-objective optimization; microgrid; non-dominating sorting genetic algorithm, unit commitment.I.

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