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Microgrids and Management of Power

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The advancements in technology, changes in power usage patterns and the pressure on the renewable technologies are forcing changes in the electric power grids and the electric infrastructure. The new challenges appear and also new ways of dealing with problems. The concepts of prosumer and microgrid emerged. To make these feasible and safe, the management of power usage and production is required to maintain the balance of power. Demand side management and production side management consider techniques to deal with cost-effective power balancing problems. In this article, the concept of complex energy management system is presented; a specific case study for a research and education center is considered. This limits the scope of the management, as the demand side management should not limit the users in performing their professional duties, this restriction is less present in the case of households. The outline of the system is presented with the short description of its elements.

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The research of W. Radziszewska was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science under International PhD Projects in Intelligent Computing. Project financed from The European Union within the Innovative Economy Operational Programme 2007–2013 and European Regional Development Fund. The results have been partially obtained in the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant number N N519 580238.

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    Weronika Radziszewska & Zbigniew Nahorski

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Radziszewska, W., Nahorski, Z. (2016). Microgrids and Management of Power. In: Trė, G., Grzegorzewski, P., Kacprzyk, J., Owsiński, J., Penczek, W., Zadrożny, S. (eds) Challenging Problems and Solutions in Intelligent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30165-5_8

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