Incorporation of the renewable resources (RR) with regular grid has many challenges like location difference between the renewable energy source and energy distribution point, and characteristic constraints like variability in weather may reduce wind energy, and reduced rain may result in lower hydroelectric energy and so on. In this work, an efficient method is proposed to integrate the RR energy in to the regular power grid. By integrating the RR with conventional energy grid, the user consumption charges can be considerably reduced and, the exploitation of fossil fuels can be gradually reduced. The work also proposes an efficient mechanism to employ real-time tariff management by demand control center that collects the usage information in real-time scale. Experimental simulations are performed using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. For real-time simulations, fuzzy controller-and TCP/IP-based communication technologies are used. The results show that the proposed work exhibit a better performance against SCADA system, and it shows effective implementation of tariff and energy utility management. KEYWORDS energy control center (ECC) and MATLAB/SIMULINK, fuzzy logic controller (FLC), multi-agent (MA), TCP/IP
INTRODUCTIONA key factor in building up a nation's economy and strength is its energy resource. Being a fast growing nation, India's thirst for electric power grows ever increasingly. But in contrary the produced current could not be effectively utilized due to lack of power transmission and distribution infrastructure, in India it is estimated that up to 21% of the energy produced is not being utilized due to this particular constraint. This necessitates the need to develop more efficient and intelligent mechanisms to connect the generating sources with the distribution points, further the efficient distribution of energy reduces the power cost factor and ensures more even functioning of the power system. 1,2Technical advancements in the area of power management systems are growing at large in the recent years. Integration of modern technology in the area of power control, measurement and analysis together with the inclusion of IT and communication technologies had made the power management system to provide more reliable, stable and quality infrastructure. For the record the India's gross power production with respect to the installed capacity as on 30.4.2017 is about 3,29,205 MW out of which 2,20,570 MW is conventional energy and the rest 1,08,635 MW is from renewable energy sources, ie, around 33% is from renewable energy sources and 67% from conventional sources. This clearly indicates the need for research and development in the area of renewable resources. Further in order to capacitate the renewable energy sources with pertinent to restrictions imposed by the government acts, intelligent systems with integrated IT-based communication systems are incorporated to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions and provide a pollution free environment. 3 It is also an important consideration that the power distributi...