Agent based management of energy storage devices within a Virtual Energy Storage

The increasing share of distributed energy resources, which will be connected to electrical networks in the future, requires innovative network structures to ensure a reliable energy supply. The integration of electrical energy storage devices will become more and more important in this context. Within this paper, an energy storage management system will be presented, which uses the multi agent system approach to increase the efficiency of the whole system, by using several agents. Thereby, the single storage devices are operating in a Virtual Energy Storage. The agent based realization of the Virtual Energy Storage, as well as its application will be presented in this paper. Thereby, a case study is used to demonstrate the suitability of the agent based management of several energy storage devices in future distribution networks.