Power Balancing in STS group Cranes with Flywheel Energy Storage based on DSM Strategy

Considering the highest power demand by Ship to Shore (STS) cranes in pier E at the port of Long Beach, designing a proper control system can harness the peak load increasing. In this paper, tw o strategies have been used for the peak load shaving. First, demand side management (DSM) in order to peak power demand minimization by duty cycle coordination between STS cranes based on PSO algorithm and in the second part utilization of Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) to make a power balance between generation and demand side. Results in MATLAB related to reference data shows the proposed method can reduce the peak power demand in the STS group cranes and provide a proper power balance between generation and demand.