Microcontrollers Systems and PLCs Used in Energies

Dear Colleagues,

All homes and industrial sectors require energy, making it an important and essential aspect of human existence.

Power demand has increased dramatically in recent decades due to population growth. The introduction of new technologies has altered the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical energy, and the energy landscape is evolving toward more adaptable and sustainable energy systems. Electricity outages are a serious issue today, and they occur because of the large amount of power wasted in various sectors.

One of the most significant criteria in modern applications is the deployment of energy-efficient systems. The goal of these systems is to control energy consumption while reducing environmental impact, through the efficient management of existing renewable and non-renewable resources.

The progress of electronics and informatics, as well as improvements in users’ experiences (in home, building and industrial applications), has resulted in the design and production of high-performance microcontrollers and PLCs, to which many peripherals can be linked with other equipment. On the subject of energy, microcontroller systems and PLCs exhibit extraordinary dynamics, with many applications in different areas of energy.

This Special Issue of Energies, “Microcontrollers Systems and PLCs Used in Energies”, aims to publish outstanding papers on microcontroller systems and PLCs, with topics including:

• Energy monitoring;
• Energy efficiency;
• Smart energy meters;
• Electrical power quality;
• Automation in transport and distribution in power systems;
• Smart protection in power generation and utilization;
• Renewable energy systems (solar, wind and fuel cells);
• IoT in power engineering.

There are numerous engineering solutions available using microcontroller systems and PLCs in: energy monitoring; saving energy in home, building and industrial applications; smart energy meters; power quality; smart protection applications; automation in power engineering; renewable energy systems; and IoT applications in power engineering. Author submissions should present different problems and solutions (through modelling, simulations and experiments) in these areas and provide brief explanations of their solutions, with the inclusion of comparative studies.

Dr. Gabriel Nicolae Popa
Dr. Corina Maria Dinis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.