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Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand

Benjamin, Brooks; Jiang, Jing; Sun, Hongjian

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Authors

Brooks Benjamin

Jing Jiang



Contributors

Abbas Jamalipour
Editor

Constantinos Papadias
Editor

Abstract

Demand Side Management (DSM) will play a large role in creating a pathway to a low carbon future. Microgrids are an ideal test bed for DSM within the Smart Grid (SG) framework, allowing for increased integration of distributed generation (DG), here focused on distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RESs). Existing work uses conservative estimates to model the stochastic nature of RESs, resulting in inaccuracies in simulation results. Large uncertainty in user specific participation in DSM programs exists. This paper develops a flexible energy load function, effectively incorporating different user's behaviour patterns into the DSM framework. Uncertainty in connecting small-scale wind generation into the smart microgrid is reduced by using an expected cost function to accurately map predicted wind speed to power output. Actual wind speed is varied across numerous sub-horizons within each time slot by using a pseudo-random number generator. The stochastic nature of renewable generation is effectively managed, producing a robust simulation. Model sensitivities are investigated and graphical results presented.

Citation

Benjamin, B., Jiang, J., & Sun, H. (2017). Incorporating User Utility in a Smart Microgrid with Distributed Generation and Elastic Demand. In A. Jamalipour, & C. Papadias (Eds.), 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC 2017) : 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France ; proceedings (1117-1122). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccw.2017.7962808

Conference Name IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2017)
Conference Location Paris
Acceptance Date Mar 15, 2017
Online Publication Date Jul 3, 2017
Publication Date Jul 3, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 20, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 21, 2017
Pages 1117-1122
Series ISSN 2474-9133
Book Title 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC 2017) : 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France ; proceedings.
ISBN 9781509015269
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/iccw.2017.7962808
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1147493

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