A Decentralized Gossip Management Method for Household Microgrids

Facing problems such as large amount of communication information, high communication cost, vulnerable to attack and expansion in the centralized control of microgrid, a novel topology of smart micro-grid for home applications is proposed. Moreover, a distributed optimization operation strategy based on Gossip algorithm is proposed to optimize the operation of micro-grid. In this strategy, the optimized operation of the micro-grid can be achieved only by exchanging information between adjacent controllers, while the central controller is not required. Therefore, the problems existing in centralized control can be effectively solved, and the control performance of the system is improved, which is beneficial to the micro-grid implementation of plug and play. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed micro-grid structure, model and operation method is verified by the MATLAB/Simulink simulation platform, which is found that simulation results are consistent with the analysis. This paper aims to design a novel topology of smart micro-grid for home applications.