Smart Microgrids: Decentralized Energy Management

Overview

Smart microgrids empower decentralized renewable energy use, enhance grid reliability, and reduce carbon footprints in urban and remote areas. This session will explore the following key topics

Highlights 

• Energy Management Systems: Role-based and online optimization for real-time operation of microgrids.
• Asset Sizing: Optimizing components like batteries and inverters for cost-effective microgrid design by performing Techno-Economic Analysis.

About the Presenter 

Ramanuja Jagannathan is a Senior Application Engineer at MathWorks, Bangalore with seven years of experience supporting MathWorks customers with modelling, simulation, and control design of mechatronic and power systems. He has prior experience working in railway construction projects. He holds a master’s degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli and bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.