**Swaminathan Ganesan 1, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban 2,\*, Ramesh Varadarajan 1, Umashankar Subramaniam <sup>1</sup> and Lucian Mihet-Popa <sup>3</sup>**


Received: 11 July 2017; Accepted: 12 September 2017; Published: 16 September 2017

**Abstract:** In this paper, a robust energy management solution which will facilitate the optimum and economic control of energy flows throughout a microgrid network is proposed. The increased penetration of renewable energy sources is highly intermittent in nature; the proposed solution demonstrates highly efficient energy management. This study enables precise management of power flows by forecasting of renewable energy generation, estimating the availability of energy at storage batteries, and invoking the appropriate mode of operation, based on the load demand to achieve efficient and economic operation. The predefined mode of operation is derived out of an expert rule set and schedules the load and distributed energy sources along with utility grid.

**Keywords:** energy management system; microgrid; distributed energy sources; energy storage system
