Optimization of a domestic microgrid equipped with solar panel and battery: Model Predictive Control and Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming approaches

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Authors: François Pacaud, Pierre Carpentier, Jean-Philippe Chancelier, Michel De Lara 

Publication date: 16 May 2022

Abstract: In this study, a microgrid with storage (battery, hot water tank) and solar panel is considered. We benchmark two algorithms, MPC and SDDP, that yield online policies to manage the microgrid, and compare them with a rule based policy. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a well-known algorithm which models the future uncertainties with a deterministic forecast. By contrast, Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) models the future uncertainties as stagewise independent random variables with known probability distributions. We present a scheme, based on out-of-sample validation, to fairly compare the two online policies yielded by MPC and SDDP. Our numerical studies put to light that MPC and SDDP achieve significant gains compared to the rule based policy, and that SDDP overperforms MPC not only on average but on most of the out-of-sample assessment scenarios.

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