Multi Agent Based Energy Management System for Microgrids

This paper presents an implementation of a Multi Agent System based Energy Management System for a microgrid. In addressing the emerging distributed generation concept, microgrids have been identified as a suitable platform for integration. The continuous controlling and monitoring is essential for distributed renewable sources in a microgrid platform. Multi Agent System concept provides a plug and play controlling nature to a microgrid unlike complex and conventional controlling techniques. Here a MAS is proposed with five main agents, which mainly consists of a wind agent, a solar agent, load agents and a server agent. Proposed system operation is based on the optimum supply of loads through the available renewable sources. As presented in this paper the interaction between agents in the system is simulated through Java Agent Development Environment. A microgrid test bed is implemented, in order to apply Multi Agent System operation with physically implemented agents. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the physical implementation of a MAS for a micro grid application.