Distributed hybrid wind-PV power system based on multi-agent

A distributed hybrid coordinated wind-photovoltaic (PV) power system structure based on multi-agent system was proposed in this paper. The basic wind power unit controller and photovoltaic cells controller were viewed as electrical source agents (ESA). The energy management system was viewed as management coordinated agent (MCA). The MCA and the ESA registered on it were defined as agent domain. A novel contract net protocol algorithm based on idleness principle was introduced as coordinated method.