Dynamic Appliances Scheduling in Collaborative MicroGrids System

Published

May 1, 2017

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi, Hasnae Bilil

Abstract

Abstract—In this paper a new approach which is based on a collaborative system of MicroGrids (MG’s), is proposed to enable household appliance scheduling. To achieve this, appliances are categorized into flexible and non-flexible Deferrable Loads (DL’s), according to their electrical components. We propose a dynamic scheduling algorithm where users can systematically manage the operation of their electric appliances. The main challenge is to develop a flattening function calculus (reshaping) for both flexible and non-flexible DL’s. In addition, implementation of the proposed algorithm would require dynamically analyzing two successive multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems. The first targets the activation schedule of non-flexible DL’s and the second deals with the power profiles of flexible DL’s. The MOO problems are resolved by using a fast and elitist multi-objective genetic algorithm (NSGA-II). Finally, in order to show the efficiency of the proposed approach, a case study of a collaborative system that consists of 40 MG’s registered in the load curve for the flattening program has been developed. The results verify that the load curve can indeed become very flat by applying the proposed scheduling approach.

Citation

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volume

32

Issue

3

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

Demand side management, demand flattening function, Fourier transform, multiobjective optimization, smart grid, dynamic scheduling, NSGA-II

Citation

Gharavi, H. and Bilil, H. (2017), Dynamic Appliances Scheduling in Collaborative MicroGrids System, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (Accessed April 16, 2026)