Coordinated Scheduling of Residential Appliances and Heterogeneous Energy Sources in a Smart Microgrid

Abstract

We propose a coordinated scheduling approach for controllable electrical appliances along with the optimal usage of heterogeneous energy sources to minimize the energy drawn from the grid and thereby reducing electricity cost for the users. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for the problem is presented to produce the optimal solutions, and an efficient heuristic algorithm is proposed to obtain results efficiently.