Environment Dispatch of Distributed Energy Resources in a microgrid using JAYA Algorithm

In this paper, the Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are used in a specific small area which is known as microgrid. Microgrid consists of microsources (distribution generator, solar and wind units, etc.), battery storage and loads. In this paper the research is focused on the islanded mode microgrid. In the microgrid, the energy management system having a problem of Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) and it is optimized by computational intelligence techniques. The newly introduced JAYA Algorithm is implemented for the solution of ELD problem in the MATLAB environment. The minimization of total cost is obtained for two different scenarios like all source except solar energy and all source except wind energy. In both scenarios, the result shows the comparison of JAYA Algorithm with the Reduced gradient method for the ELD problem solution. The results are calculated for different power demand of 24 hours. The results obtained with JAYA Algorithm gives better cost reduction in less iterations as compared to Reduced gradient method which shows the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm.