Leader-follower strategies for energy management of multi-microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1909-1916

  Asimakopoulou, Georgia E ^a   Dimeas, Aris L ^a   Hatziargyriou, Nikos D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bilevel programming; Distributed generation; Hierarchical decision making; Load management; Multi microgrids; Stackelberg game

Indexed keywords

BI-LEVEL PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION UNITS; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; HIERARCHICAL DECISIONS; INTEGRATED OPERATIONS; MULTI-MICROGRIDS; SIMULATED INTERACTIONS; STACKELBERG GAMES;

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84890413392     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2256941     Document Type: Article

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