An interactive class topper optimization with energy management scheme for an interconnected microgrid.

In recent years, energy management (EM) has become a vital tool for the planning of various energy sources in the microgrid. The EM scheme helps in the effective planning of various energy sources so that a proper balance between generation and load demand can be maintained. In this aspect, different management schemes have been developed to effectively plan various sources. In this work an interactive class topper optimization (I-CTO) based energy management scheme for an interconnected microgrid considering renewable energy sources, battery storage systems, demand side management, etc. is presented. The proposed scheme aims to optimally plan different energy sources in the microgrid so that the generation and emission cost may be minimized. To achieve this objective of having an optimal distribution of generation among different energy sourest, an objective function is formulated. This developed objective function is minimized using the proposed I-CTO scheme while maintaining some of the operational constraints encountered in real-time scenario. The reduced objective corresponds to the optimal distribution of generation among different energy sources which would help to fulfill the load demand with less generation and emission cost. To test the effectiveness of the proposed schemes and show their supremacy over some existing methods, a comparative study is presented using a numerical test example and CEC-2020 benchmark function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]