Multi-Building Microgrids for a Distributed Energy Future in Portugal

E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY Multi-Building Microgrids for a Distributed Energy Future in Portugal Goncalo Mendes 1a , Paulo Ferrao 1 , Christos Ioakimidis 2 , Michael Stadler 3,4 , and Chris Marnay 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico, MIT Portugal - Sustainable Energy Systems, Campus IST- TagusPark, Av. Professor Cavaco Silva, 2744-016 Porto Salvo, PORTUGAL Deusto Institute of Technology, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, SPAIN Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA Center for Energy and innovative Technologies, AUSTRIA Environmental Energy Technologies Division International Conference on Applied Energy ICAE 2012 Jul 5-8, 2012, Suzhou, China http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/EMP/emp-pubs.html The authors acknowledge the funding by FCT PTDC/SENENR/108440/2008 and MIT Portugal Program, ISA - Intelligent Systems Anywhere and Ad Mensuram – JesusFerreira Consultores. DER-CAM has been funded by the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Distributed Energy Program of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.