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Transactions on Smart Grid
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A Two-layer Energy Management System for
Microgrids with Hybrid Energy Storage considering
Degradation Costs
Chengquan Ju, Student Member, IEEE, Peng Wang, Member, IEEE,
Lalit Goel, Fellow, IEEE and Yan Xu, Member, IEEE
Abstract—The integration of renewable energy source (RES)
and energy storage systems (ESS) in microgrids has provided
potential benefit to end users and system operators. However,
intermittent issues of RES and high cost of ESS need to be
placed under scrutiny for economic operation of microgrids.
This paper presents a two-layer predictive energy management
system (EMS) for microgrids with hybrid ESS consisting of
batteries and supercapacitors. Incorporating degradation costs
of the hybrid ESS with respect to the depth of charge (DOD)
and lifetime, long-term costs of batteries and supercapacitors are
modeled and transformed to short-term costs related to real-
time operation. In order to maintain high system robustness
at minimum operational cost, a hierarchical dispatch model is
proposed to determine the scheduling of utilities in microgrids
within a finite time horizon, in which the upper layer EMS
minimizes the total operational cost and the lower layer EMS
eliminates fluctuations induced by forecast errors. Simulation
studies demonstrate that different types of energy storages can
be utilized at two control layers for multiple decision-making
objectives. Scenarios incorporating different pricing schemes,
prediction horizon lengths and forecast accuracies also prove the
effectiveness of the proposed EMS structure.
Index Terms—Optimization; microgrids; energy storage; en-
ergy management system (EMS); hierarchical control.
NOMENCLATURE
A. Indices and suffixes
i Storage device index.
t Time index.
∆t Time interval.
t
u
, t
l
Time index in upper and lower layer.
∆t
u
, ∆t
l
Time interval in upper and lower layer.
B. State Variables
P
M
(t) Power of utility grid.
P
B
(t) Power of battery.
P
SC
(t) Power of supercapacitor.
P
L
(t) Power of load.
P
PV
(t) Power of PV.
P
WT
(t) Power of wind turbine.
This work was under the Adaptive Integrated Hybrid DC-AC Micro Power
Parks System (ERIP04) program with Singapore Economic Development
Board (EDB Singapore) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).
The authors would like to thank ERI@N for the financial support.
C. Parameters
DOD Depth of discharge of battery.
d
B
(∆t) Depth of Charge of battery in ∆t.
E
B.rat ed
Rated battery Capacity.
E
B
(t) Energy of battery at time t.
E
SC
(t) Energy of supercapacitor at time t.
η
Bc
, η
Bd
Charging and discharging efficiency of
battery.
η
SCc
, η
SC d
Charging and discharging efficiency of
supercapacitor.
a, b, c Curve-fitting coefficients of battery life-
time.
L
B
(d
B
) Battery lifetime with respect to DOD =
d
B
.
L
SC
Supercapacitor lifetime.
E
B A
(t) Actual capacity of battery at t.
E
a
(t) Accumulative energy of battery at t
C
B
Battery replacement cost.
C
B AC
Battery average degradation cost.
C
BDC
Battery degradation cost.
C
SC
Supercapacitor replacement cost.
C
SC DC
Supercapacitor degradation cost.
T
u
, T
l
Length of prediction horizon in upper
layer and lower layer.
P
min
M
(t), P
max
M
(t) Power limits of utility grid.
P
min
B
(t), P
max
B
(t) Power limits of battery.
P
min
SC
(t), P
max
SC
(t) Power limits of supercapacitor.
S
min
B
(t), S
max
B
(t) SOC limits of battery.
S
min
SC
(t), S
max
SC
(t) SOC limits of supercapacitor.
P
min
B
(t), P
max
B
(t) Power limits of battery.
σ
l
B
, σ
l
M
, σ
l
SC
Cost weighting coefficients.
I. INTRODUCTION
I
N recent years, growing interest in renewable energy source
(RES) has prompted microgrids to develop towards more
intelligent and modernized entities. Microgrids integrate the
distributed generators including conventional and renewable
sources to supply predicted load of end-users in a decentralized
manner [1]. However, intermittency and undispatchability of
RES outputs induce system robust problems. Energy from
RES might be unavailable due to bad weather conditions when
electricity is needed [2]. Energy storage system (ESS) is usu-
ally integrated in microgrids to compensate power mismatch.
ESS can also act as bidirectional mediators with the utility