Sustainable Electrical Engineering and PV Microgrids
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2025 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrical engineering; renewable energies; data science and optimization applied to energy management; electrical equipment diagnosis
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Dear Colleagues,
The growth in installed power from renewable energy sources has emerged from several key factors, such as environmental concerns, energy security, and multiple localized benefits. Technological advancements have significantly reduced the cost of renewable energy systems, particularly photovoltaic energy, boosting competitive power generation for a more sustainable environment within the whole power system, such as PV microgrids. PV microgrids include electrical renewable generation and electrical energy usage which have increased enormously in recent years. Their effective performance is crucial from several perspectives, including renewable energy production, distributed generation, energy management, energy storage, and condition monitoring for predictive maintenance for generation technologies, among others. From the point of view of electric generation, many issues need to be attended to: systems condition monitoring oriented to predictive maintenance and transient phenomena in electric power networks. Another important aspect related to the uncertainty of generation with renewable energies is their management, their integration, and the necessity of energy storage. For these reasons, scientific interest in some of the topics mentioned above is crucial to develop more sustainable energy generation schemes and proper energy usage according to the current context. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present contributions to problems of scientific interest related to the use and generation of electrical energy in the ongoing context of the integration of sustainable energy sources. The scope of this Special Issue is broad, though it is focused on electrical engineering and PV microgrids. The scope includes PV energy production, microgrids or distributed energy, and energy management, energy storage and condition monitoring of electrical equipment for predictive maintenance purposes. Furthermore, transient phenomena studies in electric networks where PV generation and electrical loads are integrated are welcome as well, since this helps to develop a better sustainable power system.
Dr. Ignacio Martin-Diaz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- distributed energy
- renewable energy production
- PV microgrids
- sustainable energy management
- energy storage
- predictive maintenance
- condition monitoring
- transient phenomena in electric networks
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