INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN SMART GRID

This chapter focuses on two main topics ‐ Renewable energy and Smart Grid. It covers operation and control aspects of different sources, namely reactive power control in the scope of wind power integration. The chapter discusses wind power, photovoltaic generation control, and forecasting. On the demand side, demand response (DR) is discussed as a tool to optimally integrate distributed generation (DG), namely the one based on renewables. The chapter addresses storage means and electric vehicles (EVs) as a consumption/generation resource with interesting characteristics for the integration of renewables. It presents the energy resource scheduling mathematical formulation considering DG units, storage systems, EVs, direct load control DR programs, and the acquisition of energy to external suppliers. The problem can be solved as a mixed‐integer nonlinear programming problem. It presents an ERS problem of large‐scale nature solved with different kinds of algorithms from deterministic, hybrid, and meta‐heuristics.'.