Efficient demand assignment in multi-connected microgrids

Kirill Kogan, Sergey I. Nikolenko, Srinivasan Keshav, Alejandro López-Ortiz

Abstract: With the proliferation of distributed generation, an electrical load can be satisfied either by a centralized generator or by local/nearby distributed generators. Given a set of resource demands in a collection of geographically co-located microgrids that are connected to the central grid and also potentially to each other, each such demand characterized by a power level and a duration, we study algorithms that allocate generation resources to the set of demands by configuring switched paths from sources to loads.