IRJET- Survey of Micro Grid Cost Reduction Techniques

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Survey of Micro grid Cost Reduction Techniques
K.S.Kavitha Kumari1, Dr.P.Murugesan2
1 Research Scholar,Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sathyabama University,
Chennai, TamilNadu 600119, India
2Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SA Engineering College,
Chennai , TamilNadu 600 077, India
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Abstract - The electricity consumption has increased to a
huge amount in the recent years. Smart grid is an efficient,
effective, reliable, two way electricityandinformation delivery
from source to destination. Whenever there is a fault
occurrence in main grid this fault also affects the micro grid.
During optimal scheduling mechanism the operating cost of
micro grid will be higher. The operating cost of micro grid will
be less for a short span of time in islanding mode during the
fault correction mechanism with the main grid. The operating
cost will be higher after a short span of time when micro grid
is operating in island mode during fault occurrence of main
grid. In this paper the various operating cost procedures of
micro grid are analyzed.
Key Words: Island mode, load scheduling, Distributed
Energy Resources
1. INTRODUCTION
Smart grid is efficient, reliable and intelligenttwoway
electricity and information delivery system from source to
sink. The aim of smart grid is to make existinginfrastructure
more robust, reliable and efficient by using intelligent tools
and technologies, encourage active demand side
participation, enable better access to electricity, ensuring
sustainability of supply through renewable integration,
promoting green and clean environment and provide
incentives for efficientproduction,transmission,distribution
and consumption of electricity across the value chain of
electricity. Distributed energy resources (DERs) is a small
grid connected devices which is used for generation and
storage purpose and it is located near the load centre. DER
systems use renewable energy sources including bio mass,
bio gas, solar power, wind power and geo thermal power.
Distributed generation and storage enables collection of
energy from many sources and may lower environmental
impacts and improve security of supply. by means of an
interface, DER systemscanbemanagedandco-ordinate with
a smart grid.
Micro grids are introduced not only to find out the
needs of a large number of distributed energy resources in
distribution system but also to find ongoing power,
economics and to reduce the green house gas emission by
making smarter power grids. Micro grid is a small scale
power system with ability of supplying power to the end
user in a reliable way and it can disconnect from the
centralized grid and operate autonomously, provides a
distributed local intelligence for the power systemtosupply
loads in a reliable and economic manner.
In power system operation and planning micro
grids improve reliability by introducing self-healing at the
local distribution network ,reducing the power cut
frequently, higher power quality by managing consumer
demand, reduction in carbon emission by the conventional
energy sources, reduction in the cost of distribution and
transmission network by economic operation, provide
energy efficiency by responding to real time market prices,
reducing the total system expansion cost by industry
investment on new generation and transmission facilities
and providing a quick and efficient responder for supplying
load in remote area. Environmental andeconomicbenefitsof
using renewable energy include generating power that
produces no green house gas emission from fossils fuelsand
reduces some types of air pollution, diversifying energy
supply and reducing dependence on imported fuels. Micro
grids are monitored by smart grid and load distribution is
done economically [1].
Power is generatedby meansofnatural energysource
such as coal, oil, gas is called conventional energy source.
The gas emitted during the operation increases the green
house gas emissions and other environmental damage. In
conventional source power is generated, transmitted and
distributed to the consumers and amount chargeable for
electricity is decided by the power supply distribution
centre. Under fault condition, the fault is cleared by the both
manual monitoring and manual restoration.Iffaultoccursin
any one of the area it affect the whole network and causes
blackout of the system. As the above problem needs to be
solved we go for smart grid technology. DERs is used to
supply power to the end users. Under fault condition the
fault is cleared by self monitoring and self healing. Thereare
various problems faced in traditional grid.
In traditional gridasdemandisincreasedduetohigh
population, increased in consumption of power, aging of
infrastructure of the electrical components, increasing in
green house gas emission and zero customer participation.
The above mentioned factors are drawbacks in the
traditional grid. The drawbacks are mainly due to the
centralized nature of traditional grid so we go for de-
centralized nature of power generation with the help of
smart grid. In smart grid there will be a smart control of
energy transmission due to distributed energy resources.
This improves the power quality of the grid and it is friendly

to the environment. In a summer day, the photovoltaic (PV)
array supply more power and in a winter day, the wind
turbine generates more power. If the day is neither sunny
nor windy or if more power is needed, the fuel cell andmicro
turbine or main conventional supply can be used. The
battery in a smart grid system allows excess power
produced to be stored and it is used in good manner. In this
way, it is expected that the smart grid could reduceemission
level and could supply reliable energyina varietyofweather
condition and load situation [5].
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Amin Khodaei[1] proposed the Bender
decomposition method. This method performstheislanding
mode operation if fault occurs in the main grid. In island
mode of operation, micro grid power isnotsufficienttomeet
the demand in order to meet the demand then scheduling
decision in the micro grid will be revised by revising
generating units, energy storage system and adjustable load
schedules. The islanding mode of micro grid operation is
performed effectively for only one hour. Morethanonehour
of operation slightly increase the micro grid total operating
cost.
Ruilong Deng[2],proposed Dual decomposition and
stochastic gradient method. This method performs to
address the ever increasing load through appropriate
scheduling i.e to shift the energy demand peak to off peak
periods by pricing tariffs as incentive and without reducing
the total power consumption. The drawbacks of its
renewable generation intermittency are not taken as
constraint.
Ruilong Deng[3] proposed Dual decomposition, a
two level iterative algorithm and gradient projection. This
algorithm performs the power provider release the price
information one or several slot ahead and thus approach to
residential energy consumption scheduling requires the
capability of price prediction. If price prediction error
occurs improve the performance to adjust the energy
consumption schedule each time till the actual price
information is achieved. The drawbacks of gradient
projection method do not reveal the private information of
power provider.
Amin Khodaei[4] proposed resiliency-oriented
micro grid optimal scheduling model. This method is
employed to account foruncertaintiesinloadandgeneration
forecasts and to find the worst case solution of the resilient
operation problem by considering load and generation
forecast uncertainties. A resiliency oriented optimal
scheduling model was proposed and in this model a
decomposition method is used to decouple the problem to a
normal operation problem and resilient operation problem.
Resilient operation problem is used when main grid supply
is not available and the problem is solved using linear
programming and normal operation problemissolvedusing
mixed integer programming. For solving the worst case
situation a robust optimization method is used. The
drawbacks are fault in the main grid is cleared and the
supply will be restored in less than 7 hours from the time of
incident.
S.X.Chen[5] proposed Jump and Shift method and it
is used to minimize the total cost of the smart power system
as well as minimize the total line loss. In this method, any
nonlinear programming techniques such as the interior
point method (IPM) and genetic algorithm can be used to
solve the problems. The IPM is used because it is a very
effective method to solve the multi-objective optimization
problem via the jump and shift method. The drawback is the
total computing time is 10.5 min for 112-bus power system.
In future work performance can be improved.
Poria Hasanpor Divshali[6] proposeda Novel multi-
stage method, which decouples this complicated
optimization problem into three separate stages and tunes
the droop parameters in short time so that the fuel
consumption is minimized while all the constraints are
satisfied. MATAB is used for solving the optimization using
‘fmincon’ function. The total computational time will be
more when we use the voltage source converter based
microgrids by including the constraints of real and reactive
power max and min limit, stability margin , voltage and
frequency regulation.
Carlos A.Hernandez – aramburo[7] proposedactive
power sharing with one dynamic droop characteristics. In
this method communication infrastructure is used not only
to minimize the running costs of the system but alsotoallow
the co-ordination of power plants. Moreover the cost,
constraint, penalty and availability functions make the
optimal power setting foreachplanta complexstructureand
this leads to the maximizing the financial benefits in a micro
grid. The maintenance and management cost are not
considered.
3. MICROGRID FUNDAMENTALS
3.1. Overview
Microgrid technology can efficiently combine the
advantages of distributed generation, and also offer a new
technical way for large scale application of grid-connected
generation of new energy and renewable energy. Microgrid
can not only improve the efficiency of energy cascade
utilization, but also be used as an effective balancing of
power grid and improve the reliability of power supply and
power quality. It is one of the latest forward-looking
research topics in the field of electrical engineering.
3.2 Microgrid Architecture
The electrical loads and micro sources are
connected through a low voltagedistributionnetwork, while
the heat loads and Combined heat and power (CHP) sources
are connected to each othertominimizelossesduringpower
transmission. Two CHP micro sources, two non-CHP micro
sources and two energy storage devices are connected to

three feeders in the micro grid. The micro grid is connected
to the traditional grid through a point of common coupling
(PCC) circuit breaker, CB4, which canbeoperatedtoconnect
or disconnect the entire micro grid from the traditional grid.
The following Fig.1 illustrates the micro grid architecture.
In a normal condition, the microgridisconnectedto
the traditional grid so that exchange of powertakesplace. In
abnormal condition i.e whenever there is fault in the
traditional grid, CB4 is opened, so that the micro grid
operates autonomously. In this situation, the micro sources
are used to balance the loads in the micro grid. Suppose
Feeder A and Feeder C have a higher electrical loads
compared to the Feeder B connected loads. The micro grid
can be operated in another kind of islanded mode by
opening CB1 and CB3. In this case, micro sources which are
connected to Feeders A and C feed power to the electrical
loads connected to the Feeders A and C, while Feeder B is
affected by disturbance . Moreover, the sectionalizingcircuit
breakers can be used to partition the micro grid for further
reliability improvement.
The following figure 1 explains about the microgrid
architecture. The micro sources can be operated in either a
centralized manner or a decentralized manner. Centralized
operation and control rely on a central controller (CC) and
several micro source controllers (MCs) are usedinthemicro
grid. Each MC is responsible for operation and control of
each micro source. The information exchanges between the
CC and MCs are established through a communication
network such as field area network(FAN) or neighborhood
area network(NAN) .
Fig – 1 : Microgrid Architecture
3.3 Microgrid planning
The traditional grid is not able to meet the ever
increasing demand due to high population and usage of
battery electric vehicle. The microgridconceptisintroduced
near the distribution network to meet the demand. The
operating cost of renewable energy source is less compared
to the non-renewable energy source. Similar to the
traditional grid, micro grid also have Load flow studies for
planning purpose, Short circuit studies for designing the
circuit breaker, unit Commitment, Economic dispatch,
Energy Management System, Network Topology,
Contingency analysis are carried out for successful
operation. Micro grid is a small scale power system and its
operation involves unit commitmentandeconomicdispatch.
Based upon the historical data available for the past year,
estimate the load for the presentdayanddecidewhichmicro
source should be committed at what time in such that the
micro grid operating cost is minimized. Economic dispatch
means allocation of power generation of each micro source
in such away operating cost is less.
The objective of micro grid is to generate and
transmit reliable power to the consumer in such away
voltage and frequency should be within the permissible
limit. Whenever there is a disturbance in the system there is
a deviation in the voltage and frequency parameter. In
order to bring the system in stable condition the active and
reactive power generation by each micro source is adjusted
based on its local measurements of system frequency and
voltage. For instance, if system frequency increases, which
means that more power is generated than used, so that all
generators in the micro grid are accelerating, the power
output of some or all of the generators need to be reduced.
3.4 Challenges in Microgrid
Due to integration of non conventional energy
source and energy storage device, challenges arise in micro
grid planning, operation and control. Due to variation in
weather condition there will be change in the load demand
and renewable power generation so it may deviate from
forecasted values. The lithium-ion rechargeable battery
provides a buffer against short term fluctuations in output
from renewable energy sources such fluctuationcanlastfor
seconds or several minutes long. In order to address these
challenges, stochastic modeling and optimization tools can
be used for micro grid planning, operation and control.
The economics operationofmicrogridsarepossible
by shifting the energy demand from peak periodstooff-peak
periods or by decomposing the problem into a grid-
connected operation as master problem and islanded
operation as sub-problem or by reducing the industrial
consumer cost. The services provided by the micro grids are
reduction in aggregate technical and commercial loss occur
in distribution network, power quality and grid security are
improved. In terms of environmental aspects it will reduce
the CO2 emission and green house effect, Consumer
participation in generating and transmitting energy. These

are the challenges in microgrid and various models are
available for the solving the challenges in microgrid. The
summarization of models used in solving the challengesare
explained in next section.
4. MICROGRID MECHANISM
There are many models and mechanism available in
micro grid for fuel cost reduction. There are two important
models available in micro grid fuel cost reduction. They are
stochastic model and resiliency oriented micro grid optimal
scheduling model. They are explained as follows.
4.1. Stochastic model
There are much functionality in stochastic model. If we
need to perform Trajectory of state evolution we use state
evolution model. for utilization of pseudo measurements,
spatial temporal model for renewable power generation we
use state estimation technique and for spatial temporal
model for renewable power generation ,load priority and
system operation cycles with temporal correlation we use
reliability analysis. There are many technique used in
stochastic model for implementation aspects.Thetoolsused
are summarized in Table 1.
4.1. Resiliency oriented microgrid optimal
scheduling model
This model isusedto minimizethepowermismatches
between micro grid generation and load. The issue of
uncertainty of micro grid scheduling can be solved using
resilency oriented microgrid optimal scheduling model.The
functionalities and techniques are summarized in the
following table.
Table – 1 : Microgrid Mechanism
Mechanism Functionality Technique
Stochastic
model
State Evolution
model
Stochastic hybrid
system
State estimation
Triangular
factorization
Belief propagation
Reliability analysis
MCS with sequential
sampling
Markov chain
analysis
MCS with simple
random sampling
Resiliency
oriented
micro grid
optimal
scheduling
model
Worst case Robust Optimization
method
Normal operation
problem
Mixed Integer
Programming
Micro grid in island
mode
Resilient Operation
problem
Decouple problem
into normal
operation problem
Decomposition
method
The above table explains about the functionality and
techniques in stochastic model and Resiliency oriented
microgrid optimal scheduling model.Varioustechniquesare
used for implementation of functionality. Cost effectiveness
will be final resultant using this techniques microgridisland
mode functionality.
5. PROPOSED WORK
5.1. Overview
There are many challenges in economic ,
environmental and service factors of micro grid. There are
many mechanism and factors available for cost reduction
and scheduling algorithm of microgrid.Eachmechanism can
work up to extent effectively. We areintroducinga model for
reducing the total operating cost.
5.1. Total operating cost reduction
The aim is to minimize the microgrid total operating
cost which includes the generation cost of local resources
and cost of energy purchase from the traditional grid. By
using Sheep Flock Heredity Model Algorithm(SFHMA)[10]
the micro grid optimal scheduling problem is decomposed
into a grid-connected mode and island model. The
performance can be evaluated by generating the initial
sequence, sub chromosome level inverse mutation process,
global level cross over process,global level inversemutation.
Using the sheep flock heredity model the total operating
cost can be reduced comparing with other mechanisms. We
will be getting better efficiency comparing the existing
techniques.
6. CONCLUSION
In this paper we have seen a overview of various fuel
cost reduction techniques with micro grid architecture,
planning and techniques available. We found that there are
many challenges in the micro grid optimal scheduling
problems with minimization of total operating cost. A
multistage genetic operation can beperformedtoreducethe
total operating cost. Sheep flock heredity algorithm can be
used for reducing the total operating cost. There are many
challenges in micro grid planning operation and control.
Those challenges can also be solved to improve the total
operating cost.
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