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A Multi-Agent System Architecture for Smart Grid Management and Forecasting of Energy Demand in Virtual Power Plants
[EN] Recent technological advances in the power generation and information technologies areas are helping to change the modern electricity supply system in order to comply with higher energy efficiency and sustainability standards. Smart grids are an emerging trend that introduce intelligence in the power grid to optimize resource usage. In order for this intelligence to be effective, it is necessary to retrieve enough information about the grid operation together with other context data such as environmental variables, and intelligently modify the behavior of the network elements accordingly. This article presents a multi-agent system model for virtual power plants, a new power plant concept in which generation no longer occurs in big installations, but is the result of the cooperation of smaller and more intelligent elements. The proposed model is not only focused on the management of the different elements, but includes a set of agents embedded with artificial neural networks for collaborative forecasting of disaggregated energy demand of domestic end users, the results of which are also shown in this article.We would like to express our thanks to the coordinators of the project OptimaGrid for the information provided on MAS-based micro-grids, and the creators of a MAS INGENIAS methodology. This article has been partially funded by the project SociAAL (Social Ambient Assisted Living), supported by Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness, with grant TIN2011-28335-C02-01, by the Programa de Creacion y Consolidacion de Grupos de Investigacion UCM-Banco Santander for the group number 921354 (GRASIA group).Hernández, L.; Baladrón Zorita, C.; Aguiar Pérez, JM.; Carro, B.; Sanchez-Esguevillas, A.; Lloret, J.; Chinarro, D.... (2013). A Multi-Agent System Architecture for Smart Grid Management and Forecasting of Energy Demand in Virtual Power Plants. IEEE Communications Magazine. 51(1):106-113. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6400446S10611351
Short-Term Load Forecasting for Microgrids Based on Artificial Neural Networks
Electricity is indispensable and of strategic importance to national economies. Consequently, electric utilities make an effort to balance power generation and demand in order to offer a good service at a competitive price. For this purpose, these utilities need electric load forecasts to be as accurate as possible. However, electric load depends on many factors (day of the week, month of the year, etc.), which makes load forecasting quite a complex process requiring something other than statistical methods. This study presents an electric load forecast architectural model based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that performs Short-Term Load Forecasting (STLF). In this study, we present the excellent results obtained, and highlight the simplicity of the proposed model. Load forecasting was performed in a geographic location of the size of a potential microgrid, as microgrids appear to be the future of electric power supply.Hernández, L.; Baladrón Zorita, C.; Aguiar Pérez, JM.; Carro Martínez, B.; Sanchez-Esguevillas, A.; Lloret, J. (2013). Short-Term Load Forecasting for Microgrids Based on Artificial Neural Networks. Energies. 6(3):1385-1408. doi:10.3390/en6031385S1385140863Booklets European Comission. Your Guide to the Lisbon Treaty 2009http://ec.europa.eu/publications/booklets/others/84/en.pdfHernandez, L., Baladron, C., Aguiar, J. M., Carro, B., Sanchez-Esguevillas, A., Lloret, J., … Cook, D. (2013). A multi-agent system architecture for smart grid management and forecasting of energy demand in virtual power plants. 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