Practice Summary: Improved Reliability via Optimization in Residential Microgrids

Amelia McIlvenna (), Jim Ostrowski (), Andrew Herron (), Daniel King (), Philip Irminger (), Joshua Hambrick () and Ben Ollis ()
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Amelia McIlvenna: Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
Jim Ostrowski: Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
Andrew Herron: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Daniel King: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Philip Irminger: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Joshua Hambrick: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Ben Ollis: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Interfaces, 2020, vol. 50, issue 2, 112-118

Abstract: Southern Company is an electric utility that is embracing residential microgrids as a platform for distributed energy. The first residential microgrid in the southeastern United States was constructed in Hoover, Alabama, as a testbed for development. To operate the microgrid, we developed an optimization model for unit commitment and economic dispatch. The optimization model was implemented in a microgrid central controller and tested under various operational scenarios. Challenges also include developing a pricing algorithm to deliver price forecasts to the residential homes in the microgrid and open-source software restrictions.

Keywords: microgrid; integer programming; reliability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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