A fully distributed economic power sharing method for the isolated microgrid

Microgrid (MG) consists of distributed generators (DGs) is widely used to supply electric power in nowadays’ power system. Reliability, economy and robustness are all necessary to MG. Fully distributed architecture without a control center can improve the MG’s ability of damage resistance. Based on this architecture, every DG becomes an intelligent agent in this paper. Inspired by the ideology of parallelization and co-evolution, a novel distributed artificial bee colony algorithm (D-ABC) was designed to run on each agent in parallel. Then, agents can collaboratively implement economic power sharing subject to system constraints. Some simulations were done on MATLAB to verify the optimality and robustness of D-ABC. Some shortcomings and future prospects were proposed in this paper also.