A microgrid control strategy to save energy and curb global carbon emissions

The proposed study concerns the implementation of new strategies aimed at saving energy and reducing the global warming through the reduction of carbon emissions. For this purpose, the implementation of synergic procedures, contemporarily applied to microgrid and prosumers, are proposed and validated in the paper. The main implemented methodologies allow the real time management of different energy flows present inside buildings and, at the same time at higher hierarchic level, enable the supervision and control of the energy managed by the microgrid. The proposed general strategy optimizes contemporarily energy exchanges with the public electricity system, local electrical generation, storage and controllable loads. The developed concepts are valid in general, but also for the port systems where the purpose aims at saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions. © 2019 IEEE.