Abstract One of the main objectives of the Energy Management System (EMS) is to achieve a very high level of flexibility, stability, and the system must be able to adapt to most changes in the distribution network. This paper proposes a multi-agent system-based microgrid energy management to balance the energy supply and demand by feasibly integrating the energy storage system and demand response. An overall power management strategy is necessary to manage power flows among all interconnected elements of the microgrid. The principal contribution of this paper is an energy management system based on intelligent agents; each agent uses the microgrid data to manage the power flow in the microgrid. The interaction between agents proposed is simulated using JADE (Java Agent Development Environment) and the microgrid model is simulated using MATLAB/Simulink, both platforms are connected through the MACSimJX middleware for a dynamic simulation.