Strategies for microgrid operation under real-world conditions

Gunther Gust, Tobias Brandt, Salman Mashayekh, Miguel Heleno, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Dirk Neumann

Abstract: Highlights•Reactive and proactive strategies for microgrid operation are compared.•Reactive rule-based strategies outperform proactive ones under moderate uncertainty.•Demand charges and export limits decisively impact operational cost of microgrids.•The impact of forecasting errors is highly non-linear and non-monotonous.•Longer control intervals enhance the performance of proactive strategies.