2. IMPROVING ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR MICROGRID WITH SOLAR PV AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM

Renewable energy sources have emerged as an alternative to meet the growing demand for energy, mitigate climate change, and contribute to sustainable development. The integration of these systems is carried out in a distributed manner via microgrid systems; this provides a set of technological solutions that allows information exchange between the consumers and the distributed generation centers, which implies that they need to be managed optimally. Energy management in micro grids is defined as an information and control system that provides t he necessary functionality, which ensures that both the generation and distribution systems supply energy at minimal operational costs. This paper presents a literature review of energy management in micro grid systems using renewable energies, along with a comparative analysis of the different optimization objectives, constraints, solution approaches, and simulation tools applied to both the interconnected and isolated micro grids. To manage the intermittent nature of renewable energy, energy storage techn ology is considered to be an attractive option due to increased technological maturity,