Multiagent-based power allocation scheme for islanded microgrid

As the importance of electricity has been significantly increasing, there are several new paradigms of power grid proposed in the field of power system. In Japan, especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, the new power system paradigms are expected to be more resilient to survive several difficulties during a disaster situation. In this paper, the authors focus on microgrid and propose a multiagent-based power allocation scheme to realize the resilient power grid. The proposed scheme allocates electricity regarding the priority of loads in an islanded microgrid during a utility grid disturbance, and the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is confirmed by an experiment.