Microgrid Planning and Design: Resilience to Sustainability

Abstract

The recent global trend in automation and smartness has boosted the need for innovation in microgrid that led to a renewed interest in researches and innovations in this context. This paper steers a plenary counseling and discussion in the context of microgrid planning and design for academia, industry, planners, utility operators, regulators, policymakers to disseminate the recent innovation and available barriers ahead of a microgrid in the 21st century. Most published researches on microgrid covered specific areas. Exclusively, the thesis of this paper addresses a pivotal question, based on a transdisciplinary approach including technical, managerial, economic, and sustainability criteria. This study addresses that how to scale and manage a microgrid's technical and economic diversities, to align with local resiliency. By the help of a semi-empirical methodology, an exhaustive roadmap is proposed in form of a systemic solution that contributes to ensure sustainability and resiliency in term of a microgrid project management and operation.