RT Journal Article
T1 A novel energy management system based on move-blocking based predictive control for use in microgrid control
A1 Pajares Ferrando, Alberto
A1 Vivas Fernández, Francisco José
A1 Blasco, Xavier
A1 Herrero Durá, Juan Manuel
A1 Segura Manzano, Francisca
A1 Andújar Márquez, José Manuel
AB The increasing complexity of renewable-based microgrids demands advanced Energy Management Systems (EMS) capable of efficiently managing multi-time scale dynamics. Conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC) based EMS often rely on complex hierarchical structures with problematic weighting factors, which can cause undesirable effects, leading to suboptimal performance. This work proposes and validates an innovative singlelayer EMS that leverages a move-blocking strategy. The key novelty lies in embedding long-term economic objectives and short-term physical constraints into a unified optimisation problem, eliminating the need for hierarchical layers and manual weight tuning. The performance of the proposed EMS was benchmarked against a conventional bilevel hierarchical EMS and an optimal reference case. The results demonstrate significant quantitative and qualitative improvements. Our approach reduces total operating costs by over 8%. This saving is composed of several key factors:  a 13 % decrease in degradation-related costs attributable to more stable management of the hydrogen system, a reduction in fixed operating costs by minimising the usage time of the hydrogen systems, and a 7 % reduction in variable energy costs. Computationally, the strategy is highly efficient, reducing computation time by 99 % compared to the optimal case and confirming its real-time feasibility. Furthermore, it ensures more stable operation of the hydrogen system and increases system autonomy. These findings position the proposed move-blocking MPC framework as a scalable, robust, and computationally efficient solution for intelligent energy management in next-generation microgrids.
PB Elsevier
SN 0196-8904
SN 1879-2227 (electrónico)
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27995
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27995
LA eng
NO Pajares, A., Vivas, F. J., Blasco, X., Herrero, J. M., Segura, F., & Andújar, J. M. (2025). A novel energy management system based on move-blocking based predictive control for use in microgrid control. Energy Conversion and Management, 345, 120400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120400
NO This work has been funded by project PID2023-148456OB-C41 and PID2021-124908NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026