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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2021)

Published: December 31, 2021

Pages: 108-119

Original Article

Scheduling of Diesel Generators Operation with Restricted PCC in Microgrid

Nabil Jalil Aklo 1 Mofeed Turky Rashid
1Electrical Engineering Department, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq
History
  • Received: August 8, 2021
  • Revised: September 3, 2021
  • Accepted: September 3, 2021
  • Available Online: September 4, 2021
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.17.2.13

Abstract

Smart Microgrid (MG) effectively contributes to supporting the electrical power systems as a whole and reducing the burden on the utility grid by the use of unconventional energy generation resources, in addition to backup Diesel Generators (DGs) for reliability increasing. In this paper, potential had been done on day-ahead scheduling of diesel generators and reducing the energy cost reached to the consumers side to side with renewable energy resources, where economical energy and cost-effective MG has been used based on optimization agent called Energy Management System (EMS). Improved Particle Swarm Optimization (IPSO) technique has been used as an optimization method to reduce fuel consumption and obtain the lowest energy cost as well as achieving the best performance to the energy system. Three scenarios are adopted to prove the efficiency of the proposed method. The first scenario uses a 24 hour time horizon to investigate the performance of the model, the second scenario uses two DGs and the third scenario depends on a 48-hour time horizon to validating the performance. The superiority of the proposed method is illustrated by comparing it with PSO and simulation results show using the proposed method can reducing the fuel demand and the energy cost by satisfying the user’s preference.

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