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Keywords: Energy management, Model predictive and standard periods. In this manner, both the power utility
control, solar plant, Time of use Tariffs. and the customers will benefit from the aforesaid scheme. On
one hand, the utility will observe that their generators are not
Abstract overloaded and therefore meet their reserve constraints. On
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other hand, the customers can adapt their energy consumption
Renewable energy today is seen as an effective alternative based on TOU tariffs by shifting the times of (thus reducing)
energy source for meeting the exponential growth in the their energy consumption.
energy demand of the world. The application of wind or The concern of the design is to develop an optimal solution
PV alone as energy sources is not fully reliable due to
IE in the energy management, in this case, of the real time to
their intermittent characteristics. In this paper a pumped satisfy the load demand, when the system is connected at the
hydro storage (PHS) system is introduced to support the local load and as well as the grid. Much research has been
hybrid system, and a mathematical model is developed in conducted on the optimization of the hybrid system [1-4].
response to a multi-objective challenge. This model However, they did not take into consideration the
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develops a closed loop optimal control strategy for the optimizations of the sale of energy into the grid in the real
grid-connected solar wind pump used as a storage system time in order to solve the actual performance of the model.
in renewable energy. The energy generated by the This work, therefore, focuses on the optimal dispatch of the
renewable energy sources is injected into the grid during various renewable sources while maximizing the sale of the
the peak period of the day. The model takes the time of energy into the grid and minimizing the use of the renewable
use tariff (TOU) as input into the control system. The energy sources while considering the improvement of the
model of the predictive control techniques is applied in the pump and turbine life span by minimizing their working
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