Patent ID: 9742189
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H02J,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Claim:
1. A microgrid control system for controlling operations of a plurality of electric power facilities, comprising: a power supply machine activating and stopping planning portion; and an economical load distributing portion that determines command values associated with allocations of a load to a plurality of electric power supply facilities, wherein electric power equipment comprising at least solar panels are equipped at each of the plurality of electric power supply facilities; wherein the power supply machine activating and stopping planning portion: forecasts output amounts of the plurality of electric power supply facilities and amounts of load on a plurality of electric load facilities, and forecasts errors for the output amounts forecasted and the amounts of load forecasted, determines a total amount of output for power supply facilities to be activated, based on the output amounts forecasted, the amounts of load forecasted and the errors forecasted, and selects power supply facilities to be activated, based on the total amount of output determined and on characteristic information about the power supply facilities such that power supply facilities having good fuel consumption characteristics are selected in turn until a total of rated outputs of the power supply facilities selected exceeds a predetermined value, calculates load factors based on load ratios of the power supply facilities, and limits outputs from the solar panels of the power supply facilities when the load factors calculated are below a given threshold value, wherein limiting outputs from the solar panels increases the load factor for each of the plurality of power supply facilities; and wherein the characteristic information about the power supply facilities includes information about fuel consumption characteristics of the power supply facilities, wherein the information about fuel consumption characteristics includes fuel consumption characteristics in a load region about which a particular power supply facilities operates.