Survey on Complex Optimization and Simulation for the New Power Systems Paradigm

Table 11

Comparison of the main characteristics of some of the most relevant microgrid and smart grid simulators.

Work	Demand response	Distributed generation	Electric vehicles	Aggregators	Market participation	Grid modeling	Agent learning	Other
[163]	++	++	+	++	++	+	+	Real-time simulation and emulation
[210]		++				++		Storage
[211]	++	++				+	+	Microstorage and reserve regulation
[213]	++			++
[214]	++	++			++			Reduction of local imbalances
[215]		++				++	+
[218]	++				++			P2P trading
[221]	++	++		+		++
[222]	+	++			+			Transactions with neighbors
[223]	+	++		+		++		Ontologies for domain knowledge
[224]		++				++		Physical modeling of smart grid components
[225]		++				+	+
[226]	+	+				++		Co-simulation with communication network
[227]	++	++				++		Co-simulation with communication network