Multi-Agent based Cloud Energy Storage Framework for Residential Community

Energy storage is substantially admitted as an immense potential for distributed energy sources in the smart grid and load balancing. It is an enabling aid to the adaptation of renewable energy resources by small-scale residential users. However, the generated power from these sources is irregular/intermittent in nature. This affects the stability of smart grids. Therefore, energy storage is a new technology for coordinating and managing their fusing. The acceptance of distributed energy storage (DES) is still a challenge, including control effectiveness, installation cost, integration of information communication technology (ICT), and enactment. A Multiagent System (MAS) is a new solution of meeting the demands of distributed computing, communication, and data integration for smart grid applications. This study recommends a new distributed multi-agent-based architecture of storage in the community, i.e., cloud energy storage (CES), providing energy storage service to users at a significantly lower cost. To study autonomous energy management in residential communities, the proposed MAS platform and architecture are designed on the Stateflow platform. The platform provides an environment to model the decision logic and controls. In the suggested platform, Simulink's advantages are combined with Stateflow's decision-making and reactive features.