Optimal dispatch of battery storage in an industrial microgrid with a mixed portfolio of renewables

Local brownouts are a nuisance and have driven consumers to take greater responsibility for their electricity supply-particularly industries and communities with a critical need for reliable and safe power. In this paper, an optimal dispatch solution is developed for a battery storage system applied in a real industrial Microgrid which has a mixed portfolio of renewables. By applying a model predictive control (MPC)-based dispatch strategy with multi-period AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) consideration, trade-offs among multiple objectives of the industrial Microgrid, such as economic operation, reduction of power feed-back and improving the voltage quality etc., are balanced. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the proposed approach and to verify its effectiveness.