Dear Colleagues,

The increasing development of renewable energies, together with the growing fleet of electric vehicles worldwide, confronts electricity grids with an extraordinary challenge: the management of numerous supply points in which consumers can also act as energy generators (prosumers). This scenario, combined with the development of communications for decentralised resource management, suggests that smart grids will be the best tool to successfully meet the challenge. In this strongly decentralised context, intelligent control techniques, such as neural networks, machine learning, etc., can offer efficient solutions to maintain the quality of electricity supply.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Smart grids;
• Communication technologies for energy resource management;
• Intelligent control techniques applied to management of power grids;
• Provision of ancillary services (reactive, phase current balancing, peak shaving, frequency control, etc.) to the grid;
• Integration of energy storage systems in power grids;
• Intelligent management of renewable energy resources, such as photovoltaic, wind, etc.;
• Intelligent control techniques applied to power electronic converters.

Prof. Dr. Emilio Figueres
Dr. Ivan Patrao
Guest Editors

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• smart grid
• distributed generation
• intelligent control technology
• renewable energy