Preliminary Results and Discussion over a Novel Toolbox Supporting the Optimal Design and Management of a Resilient Islanded Microgrid

This paper introduces a new fully integrated decision support system (DSS) for hybrid isolated microgrids, enabling both the designer and the energy manager to make choices according to the geographical location and application-specific resilience indicators (KPI). An optimal formulation of the energy management system (EMS) is associated with the DSS and it provides the reference parameters for the power converter controller, as well as the information to build the tech-economic assessment. As several degrees of freedom exist when designing the microgrid, indicators are defined and used to analyze several scenarios and microgrid configurations, focusing on different levels of resilience. Preliminary results derived from the sizing and the EMS optimizations are presented here for different KPI, affected by the geographical location.