Networked Microgrid Energy Management Considering Ownership and Control Structures: A Comparison

Guodong Liu; Michael Starke

doi:10.3390/en18051115

Networked Microgrid Energy Management Considering Ownership and Control Structures: A Comparison

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With the growing deployment of microgrids, networked microgrids have emerged for their additional advantages of economy, reliability and resilience by coordinating the operation of multiple microgrids. As microgrids are operated with different ownership, objectives and functionalities, the formed networked microgrids show characteristics of mixed ownership, inconsistent objectives and various functionalities. To enable the coordinated operation of networked microgrids, three control structures, i.e., centralized, distributed and decentralized, have been constructed in the literature. However, the data sharing enabling these different paradigms and the resulted value propositions are not well defined, leading to poor resource management and resilience, etc. To solve this issue, a complete comparison of networked microgrid energy management under centralized, distributed and decentralized structures are performed. As a novel contribution, the required minimum data exchange of networked microgrid energy management under three control structures are identified, respectively. The value propositions are calculated and compared against each other by the results of case studies.

Original language	English
Article number	1115
Journal	Energies
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en18051115
State	Published - Mar 2025

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to the results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ) (accessed on 31 January 2025). This work was funded by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity.

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control structures
energy management
networked microgrids
ownership

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