Advanced Optimal Design of the IoT Based University Campus Microgrid Considering Environmental Concerns and Demand Response

Rising energy prices and depletion of fossil fuel seriously affect the comfort of energy consumers. The integration of renewable energy resources with the legacy system is a striking solution to mitigate such problems, especially for developing countries. For this purpose, an IoT based university campus is taken as a case study, which comprised of dispatchable and non-dispatchable energy sources along with a battery bank. Different case studies have been carried out to the analytic assessment of the proposed system. The conventional campus can consume energy from the utility grid, while the prosumer microgrid can exchange the power with the utility grid considering the price-based demand response and environmeatal concern. For the analysis, advanced linear programming is used as a solution technique in MATLAB software. The obtained results using the demand response scheme reduced the energy cost by 20.5 % that shows the efficiency of the proposed model. Furthermore, the comparison with the existing work also shows the significance of the proposed linear campus model.