Multi-Party Energy Management and Economics of Integrated Energy Microgrid with PV/T and CHP system

摘要： Focusing on electricity and thermal energy requirement of contemporary buildings, a joint operation of photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) based prosumers and a Microturbine based combined heat and power (CHP) system has been presented to analyse the economics of grid-connected microgrid (MG) system. Bidirectional flow of electricity and heat model is considered and is optimally managed using price-based demand response (DR) scheme. Thermal storage is exploited to ward off the substantial amount of heat wastages that enhance the system's reliability during any disruption of microturbine. The objective functions of both prosumer and microgrid operator (MGO) are formulated as a profit maximization problem where they interact with each other on the basis of DR activity. To establish this strategic decision-making process, the system is modelled as a Stackelberg Equilibrium (SE) game, where MGO acts as a leader while PV/T prosumers act as a follower. The interaction or contribution of two players in a game is a problem of non-linear optimization which is solved by Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm. In the end, in a case study, it has been proved that the results are quite lucrative for the proposed model.