Ali Abedi - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran,
Hadi Saghafi - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran,

Microgrid has been widely used as an approach to integrate distributed energy sources with energy storage systems in the electrical grid. It was developed to be a basic building block for a smart grid system. In this paper, a brief discussion of the basics of Microgrid is presented, the control methods, power management plans and operational challenges of the Microgrid are discussed

Distributed energy resources, energy storage, energy management, microgrid control