Optimal Scheduling for a Zero Net Energy Community Microgrid with Customer-Owned Energy Storage Systems

With the increasing use of renewable energy resources in power systems, it is necessary to overcome the limitations of these resources in terms of the supply and demand balance in high-voltage power systems. A viable solution is employing zero net energy community microgrids, which can manage the demand locally and minimize the impact to the power grid. To this end, this paper proposes an optimal scheduling method for a zero net energy community microgrid with customer-owned energy storage systems (CES). It is assumed that the microgrid operator operates in the CES market based on a bilateral contract. The CES aggregators constitute the CES and participate in the market. The aggregated CES (ACES) is considered as a single energy storage system in the proposed scheduling method. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.