Batteries are combinations of electrochemical cells that generate electricity to power electrical devices. Batteries are continuously converting chemical energy to electrical energy, and require appropriate maintenance to provide maximum efficiency. Management systems having specialized monitoring features; such as charge controlling mechanisms and temperature regulation are used to prevent health, safety, and property hazards that complement the use of batteries. These systems utilize measures of merit to regulate battery performances. Figures such as the state-of-health (SOH) and state-of-charge (SOC) are used to estimate the performance and state of the battery. In this paper, we propose an intelligent method to investigate the aforementioned parameters using a data-driven approach. We use a machine learning algorithm that extracts significant features from the discharge curves to estimate these parameters. Extensive simulations have been carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed method under different currents and temperatures.

Demand response (DR) strategies are recieving much attention recently for their applications in the residential sector. Electric vehicles (EVs), which are considered to be a fairly new consumer load in the power sector, have opened up new opportunities by providing the active utilization of EVs as a storage unit. Considering their storage capacities, they can be used in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-community (V2C) options instead of taking power in peak times from the grid itself. This paper suggests a community-based home energy management system for microgrids to achieve flatter power demand and peak demand shaving using particle swarm optimization (PSO) and user-defined constraints. A dynamic clustered load scheduling scheme is proposed, including a method for managing peak shaving using rules specifically designed for PV systems that are grid-connected alongside battery energy storage systems and electric vehicles. The technique being proposed involves determining the limits of feed-in and demand dynamically, using estimated load demands and profiles of PV power for the following day. Additionally, an optimal rule-based management technique is presented for the peak shaving of utility grid power that sets the charge/discharge schedules of the battery and EV one day ahead. Utilizing the PSO algorithm, the optimal inputs for implementing the rule-based peak shaving management strategy are calculated, resulting in an average improvement of about 7% in percentage peak shaving (PPS) when tested using MATLAB for numerous case studies.

Load scheduling and peak demand shaving are two critical aspects of the utility grid operation that help both the grid operators as well as end-users. This paper proposes a two-stage community home energy management system for microgrids. The first stage deals with the dynamic clustered community load scheduling scheme. Comparatively flatter power demand was attained using particle swarm optimization (PSO) incorporating user-defined constraints. The new arising or remaining peaks as a consequence of consumer constraints are catered to in the second stage. The second stage proposes a rule-based peak shaving management method for the photovoltaic (PV) systems that are connected to the grid and the battery energy storage systems. The proposed technique determines the dynamic demand and feed-in limits based on the estimations of the upcoming day’s load demand and PV power profiles. Also, the study presents an optimal rule-based management technique for peak shaving of utility grid power that sets the charge/discharge day ahead schedules of the battery. For peak energy minimization, PSO is used to calculate the optimal inputs needed for implementing the appropriate rule-based management strategy. MATLAB is used to test the proposed method for different PV power and load demand patterns, thus, achieving an average improvement of 8.5%.

Power scheduling of domestic appliances is a vital preference for bridging the gap between demand and generation of electricity in a microgrid. For a stable microgrid, an acceptable mechanism must reduce the peak to average ratio (PAR) of power demand with supplementary benefits for consumers as reduced electricity charges. Recent studies have focused on PAR and cost reduction for a small consumer population. Furthermore, researchers have mainly considered homogeneous consumer loads. This study focuses on residential power scheduling for electricity cost reduction for consumers and load profile PAR curtailment for a relatively large consumer population with non-homogeneous loads. A sample population of 1000 consumers from various classes of society is considered. The proposed dynamic clustered community home energy management system (DCCHEMS) allows the clustering of appliances based on time overlap criteria. Comparatively flatter power demand is attained by utilizing the clustered appliances in conjunction with particle swarm optimization under the influence of user-defined constraints. Modified inclined block rates with real-time electricity pricing strategies are deployed to minimize the electricity costs. DCCHEMS achieved higher efficiency rates in contrast to the traditional non-clustering and static clustering optimization schemes. An improvement of 21% in peak to average ratio, 4% in cost reduction, and 19% in variance to mean ratio is obtained.

Researchers are focused toward the development of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles for the preservation of the ecosystem. Energy storage, conversely, became essential with these changes in vehicular technology. This opens new research fronts and introduces complex problems that are to be investigated regarding the primary storage element. Battery modeling offers improved efficiency, safety, and reliability. Lithium-ion batteries are a popular source of energy in many applications, especially for electric vehicles because of their high performance and high energy density. However, there exist some inherent issues like complex electrochemical reactions that make accurate monitoring a challenging task. This article performs a comparative study of the existing battery state of health (SOH) monitoring and capacity estimation techniques using the NASA dataset for lithium-ion batteries. Charging cycle datasets for voltage, current, and temperature are used for feature identification and extraction. After the modeling of extracted features, the SOH and the capacity of four batteries are estimated using three data-driven techniques. Including convolutional neural network, feed-forward neural network, and long short-term memory (LSTM), and their results are compared. The comparative analysis highlights an outstanding performance and high accuracy of the LSTM-based machine learning technique because of the inherited long-term memory of the LSTM. The study, therefore, recommends the use of LSTM to researchers for battery health monitoring and capacity estimation with the highest possible accuracy.

Regarding different challenges, such as integration of green energy and autonomy of microgrid (MG) in the multi-microgrid (MMG) system, this paper presents an optimized and coordinated strategy for energy management of MMG systems that consider multiple scenarios of MGs. The proposed strategy operates at two optimization levels: local and global. At an MG level, each energy management system satisfies its local demand by utilizing all available resources via local optimization, and only sends surplus/deficit energy data signals to MMG level, which enhances customer privacy. Thereafter, at an MMG level, a central energy management system performs global optimization and selects optimized options from the available resources, which include charging/discharging energy to/from the community battery energy storage system, selling/buying power to/from other MGs, and trading with the grid. Two types of loads are considered in this model: sensitive and non-sensitive. The algorithm tries to make the system reliable by avoiding utmost load curtailment and prefers to shed non-sensitive loads over sensitive loads in the case of load shedding. To verify the robustness of the proposed scheme, several test cases are generated by Monte Carlo Simulations and simulated on the IEEE 33-bus distribution system. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed model.