Smart Microgrid for Sustainable Residential Energy System Using Multi-Agent Energy Management System

Energy security and access to sufficient power supply is an important issue in the society and the world at large, tremendous growth have been experienced in the demand for energy, therefore, there is need to keep exploring alternative means of generation and also ensuring that the available energy is properly managed. renewable and non-harmful to the environment is an added benefit and this has led to research in the area of distributed generation. Grid outages, which can be caused by a lack of adequate investment in the power supply by the government, environmental conditions like storms, hurricanes amongst others have led to increased interest in distributed generation like the use of microgrids. This project proposes a solution that utilizes a microgrid that is connected to the grid but can also be isolated from the grid in the advent of grid faults which utilizes solar energy, wind energy, and biomass (from household waste) to generate power to a small-scale residential system with the excess power stored in a battery energy storage system. The proposed system utilizes a multi-agent energy management system for energy scheduling which enables the various agents; control agent, distribution energy resources agent, and the energy storage system agent to communicate with one another for the smooth operation of the system using the Java Application Development Environment (JADE), the system is simulated through the use of MATLAB/Simulink and the JADE framework is integrated to the simulation using MAC-SimJX co-simulator. The efficiency of the microgrid to schedule the renewable energy resources in the advent of a grid outage through the use of the multiagent energy management system is analyzed. The simulation results verify and show the efficiency of the proposed system using the interaction between the Simulink and JADE simulation, showing that the system enables the microgrid to work autonomously to ensure constant energy supply to the residential area in which it is utilized.