Renewable Energy Sources Integration with Smart Grid

Flexible, strong, and smart grids play a crucial role in the integration of variable renewable energy (RE). As high levels of variable RE penetration becomes increasingly common across power systems. Traditionally the power is generated in bulk and distributed to the large load centers via the transmission lines. The transfer of power was always one way, which is from the utilities to the consumers. Now in the immediate future, renewable energy sources cannot support the entire grid by themselves. So they have to be connected to the main grid acting as auxiliary power sources thus reducing the overall burden on the primary power generation units. However, to achieve this task, an efficient energy management system needs to be addressed. In this context, the concept of smart grid plays a crucial role and can be successfully applied to the power systems. This paper presents the study of integrating renewable energy in smart grid system.