Weighted Hierarchical Consensus based Economic Dispatch Utilizing Cluster Size Estimation for Networked Microgrids

The fast adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) to meet the ever-growing energy demand has created a need for an efficient and reliable energy management system (EMS). This paper proposes a weighted consensus based method for solving the economic dispatch problem in hierarchical distributed networked microgrid system. The combination of cluster size estimation and weighted consensus enable us to obtain an optimally operating energy management framework for our system. The proposed approach is validated through extensive simulations, demonstrating its effectiveness over existing methods in terms of convergence time and system performance optimization in networked microgrids.