COORDINATION OF VIRTUAL POWER PLANT WITH BATTERY AND UTILITY FOR OPTIMAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT CONSIDERING SHIFTING OF FLEXIBLE LOADS

The implementation of load shifting on flexible loads in collaboration with Virtual Power Plant (VPP) andutility to keep the overall price as low as possible in the deregulated electricity market by scheduling the VPP,utility, and flexible loads. In this paper, Photovoltaic (PV), Micro Turbine (MT), Wind Turbine (WT), BatteryEnergy Storage (BES) and Fuel Cell (FC) are all part of VPP. This study describes a mechanism forcoordinating the VPP and the utility to satisfy flexible load requirements in three different test scenarios. Theproblem is defined as a linear optimization problem, and it is addressed using the Archimedes OptimizationAlgorithm (AOA), which was recently invented. Here, the flexible loads are shifted from peak-load hours tobase-load hours. The proposed problem is based on a power system integrating VPP (renewable sources andbattery storage units) and utility under three different scenarios. Further, AOA's search capability is alsocompared with other modern approaches.