Modeling of a university campus Micro-Grid for optimal planning of renewable generation and storage deployment

In this work we present a high-level simulation approach for a university campus microgrid developed in Simulink/MATLAB. The aim of the tool is to build a digital twin of the campus electric grid allowing simulations on different time scales (e.g., from one week to one year) and enabling a first-order evaluation of its electrical, economic, and environmental performance in a context of increased renewable energy (specifically, photovoltaic) and battery energy storage system (BESS) penetration. The model is applied to the case study of the University of Parma South Campus electric grid.