The pursuit of sustainability motivates microgrids that depend on distributed resources to produce more renewable energies. An efficient operation and planning relies on a holistic framework that takes into account the interdependent decisionmaking of the generators of the existing power grids and the distributed resources of the microgrid in the integrated system. To this end, we use a Stackel...

At present, the structure of power systems is greatly changing due to the penetration of decentralized generations. Although they encompass a high flexibility potential, their large-scale penetration interferes with the power system operation at all voltage levels. To get rid of this flaw and exploit their flexibility, different concepts like Virtual Power Plants, Microgrids and Cellular Approa...

The concept of "Microgrid" is one of the most promising architectures expected to support the transition from present to future Electricity Grids by integrating large amounts of Renewable Energy Sources. The numerous benefits of microgrids have attracted attention and during the last decade several projects and researches have focused on this field. Within different European projects the pilot ...

Microgrids are small scale power systems with local resources for generation; consumption and storage, that can operate connected to the main grid or islanded. For the islanding operation of microgrids, two important tasks are to share the load demand and maintain the voltage and frequency stabilities. In order to achieve this goal, a hierarchical control structure can be employed. This researc...

Microgrids have been identified as a step towards goals of global green energy generation they offer attractive options renewable resource inclusion in decentralized networks, thus providing incentive meeting booming demand sustainably. They are however impaired by the characteristic nature Distributed Renewable Energy Resources (DRERs). While DRERs and microgrids advantage sustainable autonomo...

Power quality issues in islanded microgrids comprising of various renewable energy sources have recently gained more attention. As the harmonic mitigation capability from distributed resources will vary for different network topologies, this paper introduces a unified single-end approach using robust optimization model. In proposed method, central controller receives voltage distortion measurem...