Recent advances in electric grid technology have led to sustainable, modern, decentralized, bidirectional microgrids (MGs). The MGs can support energy storage, renewable sources (RESs), power electronics converters, and management systems. MG system is less costly creates CO2 than traditional systems, which significant operational fuel expenses. In this paper, the proposed hybrid adopts energie...

A microgrid can be operated in on-grid or off-grid, mode using distributed energy resources (DER), among which combined heat power can play an important role in increasing the total energy efficiency. This paper reports the total solutions to the problem of scheduling DER including CHP and their dispatch, called a generation application package. To increase the accuracy of forecasting, this pap...

This paper proposes an autonomous and economic droop control scheme for DC microgrid application. In this method, a cost-effective power sharing technique among various types of DG units is properly adopted. The droop settings are determined based on an algorithm to individually manage the power management without any complicated optimization methods commonly applied in the centralized control ...

This paper proposes an innovative internet of things (IoT) based communication framework for monitoring microgrid under the condition of packet dropouts in measurements. First of all, the microgrid incorporating the renewable distributed energy resources is represented by a state-space model. The IoT embedded wireless sensor network is adopted to sense the system states. Afterwards, the informa...

Integrated monitoring and control of energy storage and other generating sources and loads in microgrids are important to ensure full realization of the benefits of energy storage. This paper describes ongoing projects at the University of California – San Diego (UCSD), 42 MW microgrid that integrates energy storage and associated monitoring and control. The UCSD microgrid power distribution sy...

Microgrid system has received more and more attention internationally in recent years. As the most effective form of distributed generations, microgrid system has also found wide applications in many areas. In this paper, the optimal configuration issue of microgrid system is described briefly first. And then the monitoring system of microgrid system is discussed in details. Different control m...

Residential microgrid has the capability to participate in the distribution grid as a very flexible and dynamic component for demand side energy management (energy efficiency, peak-load reduction, and demand response). Various hierarchical (appliance, home, and neighborhood level) advanced control algorithms need to be developed and validated for such residential microgrids. GridLAB-D is the mo...

A dynamic economic dispatch and control method is proposed to minimize the overall generating cost for a stand-alone microgrid in DongAo Island, which is integrated with wind turbine generator, solar PV, diesel generator, battery storage, the seawater desalination system and the conventional loads. A new dispatching strategy is presented based on the ranking of component generation costs and tw...

While the temporal dynamics of speech can be represented very efficiently by Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), the classification of speech into single speech units (phonemes) is usually done with Gaussian mixture models which do not discriminate well. Here, we use Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for classification by integrating this method in a HMM-based speech recognition system. In this hybrid SV...