Model Predictive Control for Optimization of Combined Heat and Electric Power Microgrid

This is a contribution to the economic dispatch problem of combined electrical and heat power microgrids. A mixed integer linear microgrid model has been developed; the microgrid operations optimization problem has been formulated using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming and Model Predictive Control technique has been applied to take system uncertainties into account. The proposed optimization algorithm has been applied to a tertiary site microgrid, located in Finland; the obtained numerical results have been compared with a heuristic algorithm.