EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF MICROGRID IN MULTI-AGENT REPRESENTATION
The paper proposes an approach to solving the problem of assessing the operational efficiency of agent-based microgrids. The approach discussed in this paper is based on analyzing microgrid objects as distributed agents forming a multi-agent system (MAS), which enables to evaluate the efficiency of microgrid as a whole, as well as the operational efficiency of each separate agent. The elaborated scheme also gives the possibility to formalize the process of integrating heterogeneous objective functions into certain combined criteria, particularly: technical, economic and environmental ones. The scientific novelty of the paper is the development of the method of combined assessment of technical, economic and ecological efficiency of micro-energy system operation based on multi-agent system, which is the basis for solving the problem of multi-criteria optimization. The construction of the algorithm for evaluating the efficiency of the micro-energy system is carried out in relation to the applications of designing a hybrid-generating and environmentally safe heat-electric supply systems in remote areas.