Advanced Management and Control Strategies for Electrical Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The development of integrated frameworks for energy management, optimization and control is urgently needed to meet the high penetration levels of renewable energy sources and the development of new generation concepts and grid paradigms. It is expected that a more substantial fraction of the total consumed demand will be produced by renewable resources. Moreover, with the rapidly evolving electric vehicle (EV) technologies and dropping battery costs, more EVs are expected on the roads within the coming few years. Both renewable energy and electric vehicles impose a set of looming challenges to operators. Renewable energy sources are intermittent by nature, adversely affecting the power grid unless they are augmented with energy storage. EVs can collectively represent a significant demand increase during charging, ultimately mandating wide-scale infrastructure upgrade. Infrastructure upgrade can be deferred, and the impact of EVs can be mitigated if they are intelligently managed and their charging/discharging process is coordinated and optimally scheduled. The solution to these challenges requires the development of a set of optimal control strategies and energy management algorithms to reliably operate power grids taking into account renewable energy sources, moving and stationary electric vehicles, and controllable loads.

We cordially invite you to submit your original contributions to this Special Issue, entitled: “Advanced Management and Control Strategies for Electrical Energy Systems.” This is a Special Issue of MDPI’s Energies, an international peer-reviewed open-access journal covered by various databases, including WoS and Scopus. The present Special Issue aims to collect innovative solutions and experimental research supported by appropriate modeling and design, but also state-of-the-art studies, on the following topics:

• Advanced control solutions for power-electronics dominated systems;
• Investigating power quality and stability issues in electrical energy systems;
• Fault-tolerant control in power electronics and drive applications;
• Energy management and optimization in hybrid energy systems;
• Hierarchical control techniques for distributed generation systems and microgrids;
• Renewable energy systems (wind, solar, fuel cells, hybrid renewable energy systems, etc.);
• Application of artificial intelligence in smart grids;
• Grid integration of electric vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Ali Djerioui 
Prof. Dr. Mourad Ait Ahmed
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Fouad Benkhoris
Prof. Dr. Azeddine Houari
Prof. Dr. Mohamed MacHmoum
Prof. Dr. Hegazy Rezk
Prof. Dr. Abdelhakim Saim
Prof. Dr. Samir Zeghlache
Guest Editors

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