The video shows a comparative among different grid configurations. Our environment for real time microgrid simulation allows to simulate several grids in parallel with its own load curves and weather conditions.

The aim of this video is to show the benefits of the distributed energy resources automatically controlled in microgrids with respect to microgrids with no management. The implemented microgrid management pursues to reach the minimum imported and exported energy from the utility.

For this purpose, four microgrids are simulated at the same time. These microgrids share the same topology but some of them introduce new elements. They are: grid with only consumers, grid with consumers and renewable generation but with no management implemented (generators are connected by default at its maximum capacity), grid with consumers and renewable generation with automatic management and, finally, a grid with consumers, renewable generation and batteries implementing management. For this simulation, all the scenarios use as inputs the same load curves and weather conditions.

Results show that the case of renewable generation management reduces the exported energy at the end of the simulation, and how the fact that including batteries management helps to reduce the imported energy and also the bill.

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