Energy Resource Scheduling Optimization for Smart Power Distribution Grids – Hour-Ahead Horizon

As the use of renewable energy sources grows, the energy aggregator company plays an increasingly significant role in ensuring extremely flexible supply and demand, as requested by the smart grid architecture. This study presents a model for the problem of intraday energy resource scheduling (hour-ahead). The model is solved using the CPLEX solver and is developed as mixed integer linear programming. A distribution network with 180 buses located in Portugal considering high distributed energy resources penetration is used to demonstrate the application of the proposed model. The findings indicate how forecast errors and contractual restrictions with energy storage systems and electric car charging stations affect hour-ahead scheduling costs.This research has received funding from FEDER funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE 2020) and National Funds through the FCT Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Projects PTDC/EEI-EEE/28983/2017 (CENERGETIC), CEECIND/02814/2017 (Joao Soares grant), and UIDB/000760/2020