Mixed integer quadratic programming receding horizon microgrid supervisor

Abstract

This paper proposes to optimize the real time operation of a microgrid controlled with a two-layer Model Predictive Controller supervisor. Based on the classical decomposition of control level, the proposed supervisor tracks long-term economic references from a classical economic optimization routine. The optimization problem is formulated as a Mixed Integer Quadratic Problem and uses the different power references as levers to reach this optimum and maintain the state of the microgrid within limitations. In addition, it is able to minimize the grid losses.