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is paper explores the main investigations related to the power plant concept proposed for the new buildings of the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. Energy planning for the new buildings was made based on detailed studies of energy conservation, renewable energy integration, heat recovery and state-of-the-art energy management techniques. e investigations justify the choice for a hybrid power plant for the new buildings, integrating wind and solar renewable sources, a redundant combined heat and power generation system, and a management system operating on the Smart Grid concept. e expected fuel savings and the reduction of emissions resulting from the adoption of these concepts is about 40% compared to a traditional plant.

The interest on renewable sources of energy and sustainable energy management has driven a lot of countries to develop projects and researches about this subject. The microgrid is one of the approaches within the concept of Smart Grids that has been studied through recent years. This paper describes the recent state of the researches about microgrids in Federal University of Espírito Santo, and presents the pilot project of a microgrid developed in this university. The microgrid is connected to the electrical main grid with wind and solar photovoltaic resources and with a control system for studies on energy management, electrical systems protection, multi-objective optimization and virtual synchronous generation