Distributed power management system with dynamic load management based on multi-agent system for smart grid

Abstract

Power management in city electrical network has some challenges like to enhance renewable power supply, optimize distribution or network’s integrity. Usually, conventional parameters are considered like costs and power constraints but load management is ignored to reduce environmental impact that energy generation produces as well as other aspects are ignored too. To address these limitations, a proposal based on a multi-agent system, which is developed in JADE framework, is introduced. The demand satisfaction is conditioned to the available power by mean of strategies oriented to control consuming spikes and to satisfy the future power demand as long as possible. Electrical network of a medium-size city is simulated to show the complex equilibrium that must be made to attend energy requests coming from a set of consuming centres. This study case let us confirm the feasibility of the power supply solution based on load management, in this context.