Demand Response Potentials for the Economic Deployment of Multi-Carrier Microgrids

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran.

2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran

Abstract

Multi-carrier microgrids integrated by multiple energies can provide high energy supply flexibility for not only electrical end-users but thermal or gas consumers. Thus, this paper inspects the technical and economic viability of multi-carrier microgrid expansions and helps investors decide whether to invest in multi-carrier microgrid installations. The proposed model's solution determines the optimal mixture of distributed energy resources and identifies potential customers' ideal demand response intensity within a real-life industrial multi-carrier microgrid. The developed model aims at minimizing the total planning cost comprising distributed energy resources' investment and replacement, demand response enabling technology, operation, maintenance, energy demand shifting, peak demand charge, CO2e emission, and load curtailment. The design problem is formulated as mixed-integer programming and solved by GAMS 24.1. Numerical simulations reveal the proposed model's efficacy and investigate the impact of various factors on multi-carrier microgrid planning results.

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Signal Processing and Renewable Energy

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 01 December 2020

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  • Receive Date: 11 October 2020
  • Revise Date: 28 November 2020
  • Accept Date: 01 December 2020

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