Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grids
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 3504
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Interests: robust economic model predictive control; flexible demand response and the design of control strategies for the smart grids
Interests: energy system economics; transportation electrification; artificial intelligence in power systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Increased urban electric loads driven by the electrification of the transport sector, cooling/heating technologies, various forms of distributed energy storage, advancements in distributed generations, demand side responses, etc., will fundamentally transform the operational paradigm of future urban energy infrastructure. In particular, in the future, flexibility and resilience will not necessarily be delivered through asset redundancy at the national level, but through the smart control of multi-energy systems at the local district level, by making use of local backup generation, energy storage, demand side response technologies, and the control of local urban energy infrastructure. Distributed energy resources (DERs) will constitute the cornerstone of the future inner-city smart grids, in which the security of supply will be delivered by local resources at the district level. To support such a paradigm shift, the large-scale integration of DERs through intelligent and sophisticated coordinative actions are required. In this context, it is important to fully understand the interactions between different DERs, find out how to intensify the synergies across different energy vectors, enable them to support one another, and investigate the mechanism based on how different energy vectors can co-support the operation of smart grids. Additionally, since smart control is the core used to arouse the synergies between various DERs, it is significant to explore effective control strategies to realize the optimal dispatch of DERs aimed at enhancing the efficiency of urban energy systems.
Dr. Zihang Dong
Prof. Dr. Yujian Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy system flexibility and resilience enhancement through Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
- demand side response and energy management of DERs
- advanced Information and communication technologies supporting the integration of DERs in smart grids
- prediction algorithms, communication approaches, control strategies and business model in Virtual Power Plant (VPP)
- generation planning and market design for integrated energy systems
- multi-energy system integration, covering electricity, gas, heat, cold, transport, information and hydrogen systems, etc.
- Artificial Intelligence-based approaches for local energy system modelling
- advanced control strategies for the coordination of numerous/heterogeneous DERs
- smart scheduling and routing of Electric Vehicles (EV) for improving power system operation
- modelling of local energy systems, including smart buildings, micro-grids, industrial parks, etc.
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