Integrating Renewable and Distributed resources - IIT Perfect Power Smart Grid Prototype

The goal of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the Perfect Power Smart Grid Prototype at Illinois Institute of Technology, while highlighting some of the multi-agent system applications. The Perfect Power Prototype is supported by the Department of Energy under the Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration Program, which focuses on effectively integrating distributed resources (including distributed generation technologies, renewable generation technologies, energy storage devices, and demand response methods) for decreased peaking power demand on the grid and for providing necessary ancillary services. The IIT Perfect Power Prototype plans to accomplish the above integration tasks via autonomous multi-agent systems.