Expeditious urbanization, population growth, and technological advancements in the past
decade have significantly impacted the rise of energy demand across the world. Mitigation of …

Renewable energy resources are currently being deployed on a large scale to meet the
requirements of increased energy demand, mitigate the environmental pollutants, and …

Islanded microgrids (IMGs) provide a promising solution for reliable and environmentally
friendly energy supply to remote areas and off-grid systems. However, the operation …

The significant benefits associated with microgrids have led to vast efforts to expand their
penetration in electric power systems. Although their deployment is rapidly growing, there …

Microgrids are expected to become part of the next electric power system evolution, not only
in rural and remote areas but also in urban communities. Since microgrids are expected to …

This paper reviews the system components, modeling, and control of microgrids for future
smart buildings in current literature. Microgrids are increasingly widely studied due to their …

Abstract Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is an optimization method inspired by the
theory of Newtonian gravity in physics. Till now, many variants of GSA have been …

A scenario-based robust energy management method accounting for the worst-case amount
of renewable generation (RG) and load is developed in this paper. The economic and robust …

The term smart grid refers to a modernization of the electrical network consisting in the
integration of various technologies such as dispersed generation, dispatchable loads …

Microgrid equipped with heterogenous energy resources and a bank of energy storage
devices presents the idea of small scale distributed energy management (DEM). DEM …