Integration of Renewable Energy Sources to Smart Grid

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies, entitled “Integration of Renewable Energy Sources to Smart Grid”. The transition to renewable energy occurring worldwide is the outcome of a global effort to fight climate change and to ensure a more sustainable way of life. Electricity grids are the means to accomplish the green energy shift, provided that renewable sources are carefully integrated, while the grid is smartened to interact with power electronics-interfaced generators and loads. In this scenario, it is fundamental to understand the effects and implications of the new technologies that are rapidly taking over the electricity grid, and how these new technologies can be managed to guarantee service stability, energy security and power quality. This Special Issue aims to explore problems and solutions concerned with a power system dominated by renewable energy, power electronic converters, and catering for the imminent large-scale deployment of electrified transportation.

Dr. Sara Deilami
Dr. Leonardo Callegaro
Dr. Seyedfoad Taghizadeh
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• Grid stability with decreasing rotating inertia from synchronous generation
• Power system load modelling
• Power system security
• Black-start from renewable energy sources
• Monitoring, control and protection of smart power grids
• Virtual power plants
• Microgrids
• Grid to vehicle/ vehicle to grid/ vehicle to building
• Grid impacts of electrified transportation
• Electric vehicle charging modelling and control
• Voltage and frequency control in grid-connected and islanded microgrids
• Synthetic inertia by power electronics-interfaced generation
• Grid forming inverter controls and virtual synchronous machines
• Smart inverter designs
• Low voltage ride through (LVRT) in solar/battery inverters
• Fault tolerant power converters
• Distributed energy resources (DER) technical standards.