Day-ahead Energy Management of a Microgrid with Battery Energy Storage Integration

Microgrids are growing at a right pace due to their advantages towards the economical environmental sustainability. Effective operation and management of microgrids can significantly help both the microgrid operator and customers to get economic and technical benefits. In addition to distributed generation (DG) and battery energy storage system (BESS), a microgrid can effectively utilize demand response (DR) strategy to better manage the energy and improve the performance of the network. In this paper, a mathematical formulation for day-ahead energy management of a microgrid is developed. The day-ahead scheduling of resources have been done with the available information of DG, load demand and electricity price. The simulation case studies with two DR schemes have been carried out for four bus test system and results are presented to compare the DR schemes.