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© 1972-2012 IEEE. Many modern industries are equipped with onsite renewable generation and are normally connected to the grid. A battery energy storage system (BESS) can complement the intermittency of the available onsite renewable generation. The combination of the BESS and the renewable generation can operate as a microgrid. If the microgrid is properly sized and managed, it is possible to reduce the electricity bill to have a huge saving in the electricity cost. This article proposes an energy management system for such an industrial microgrids. The decisions to charge and discharge the BESS in the proposed energy management are usually constrained by the size of the energy storage. The proposed energy management strategy aims to optimize the operation of the industrial microgrids subject to the scalability of the BESS under uncertainties. The proposed optimization involves two stages. In the first stage of optimization, it determines the optimum size of the energy storage taking into account the cost of the BESS, and in the second stage, it minimizes the cost of the microgrid operation based on the decision made in the first stage. This proposed two-stage energy management strategy is formulated as a single-stage linear program that incorporates stochastic scenarios for addressing uncertainties. In addition, the proposed strategy also considers the various operating limits of the energy storage, such as the efficiency and the charging and the discharging rates, and considers the fading effect of the batteries of the BESS. The proposed strategy is then validated using two typical datasets from two different industrial units in New South Wales, Australia. The simulation results show that the proposed strategy 1 Abstract-Many modern industries are equipped with on-site renewable generation and are normally connected to the grid. A battery energy storage system (BESS) can complement the intermittency of the available on-site renewable generation. The combination of the BESS and the renewable generation can operate as a microgrid. If the microgrid is properly sized and managed, it is possible to reduce the electricity bill to have a huge saving in the electricity cost. This paper proposes an energy management system for such an industrial microgrids. The decisions to charge and discharge the BESS in the proposed energy management are usually constrained by the size of the energy storage. The proposed energy management strategy aims to optimize the operation of the industrial microgrids subject to the scalability of the BESS under uncertainties. The proposed optimization involves two stages. In the first stage of optimization, it determines the optimum size of the energy storage taking into account the cost of the BESS, and in the second stage, it minimizes the cost of the microgrid operation based on the decision made in the first stage. This proposed two-stage energy management strategy is formulated as a single stage linear program that incorporates stochastic scenarios for addressing uncertainties. In addition...

Operation of power system within specified limits of voltage and frequency are the major concerns in power system stability studies. As power system is always prone to disturbances, which consequently affect the voltage instability and optimal power flow, and therefore risks the power systems stability and security. In this paper, a novel technique based on the "Artificial Algae Algorithm" (AAA) is introduced, to identify the optimal location and the parameters setting of Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) under N-1 contingency criterion. In the first part, we have carried out a contingency operation and ranking process for the most parlous lines outage contingencies while taking the transmission lines overloading (NOLL) and voltage violation of buses (NVVB) as a performance parameter (PP = NOLL + NVVB). As UPFC possesses too much prohibitive cost and larger size, its optimal location and size must be identified before the actual deployment. In the second part, we have applied a novel AAA technique to identify the optimal location and parameters setting of UPFC under the discovered contingencies. The simulations have been executed on IEEE 14 bus and 30 bus networks. The results reveals that the location of UPFC is significantly optimized using AAA technique, which has improved the stability and security of the power system by curtailing the overloaded transmission lines and limiting the voltage violations of buses.

Increasing environmental concerns have led to a push for renewable energy sources to be extensively used to reduce emissions. In this paper, we investigate a hybrid dynamic economic emission dispatch (HDEED) problem involving thermal, wind, and photovoltaic (PV) generation systems. Our formulation considers the stochastic nature of both wind and PV generated power, and differences because of mismatches between the actual and allocated wind and PV power. A hybrid backtracking search algorithm with sequential quadratic programming was used to minimize the total operational costs and emissions, while dispatching power to the committed generation units subject to all operational constraints. To verify the efficacy, we applied the proposed technique to solve the dynamic economic emission dispatch problem on five and ten unit test systems. The proposed technique was also used to solve the HDEED problem on IEEE 30 bus, 6-unit and IEEE 57 bus, 7-unit test systems, with and without renewable generation. The results of our numerical simulations show the efficiency of the proposed technique with respect to reducing operational costs and emissions. Moreover, our results show that by incorporating renewable energy into existing power systems, we can reduce operational costs and emissions.