Video Demo

I've created a short video of my centralised demo. It doesn't have any audio or captions explaining what's going on because I would normally use it during presentations where I explain what's happening.Here's an explanation: To start with the network is working normally, loads and output are balanced and no transmission lines are overloaded. The green node is a generator that has been nominated to follow the load within the network and will ramp up/down accordingly. As the red nodes's load increases the nominated generator will ramp up its output to compensate, however this overloads two transmission lines on the network. In order to reduce the overload, the generators must be coordinated such that they reconfigure there outputs. The objective function is minimising carbon emissions but it is also making sure that the distance between a generators current output and the output it is changing to is minimal.

Demo

I have now created a demo which visualises an electricity network with a number of generators and loads. When the demo is run, a load increases on the network, which is then satisfied by a generator ramping up to compensate. However doing this overloads two of the lines on the network. It then attempts to coordinate generators so that the lines are no longer overloaded. The objective function in use is a combination of minimising  the sum of carbon emissions and minimising the change of generators output.