Sustainable Energy Transition: Advanced Control and Optimization Techniques for Power Grid Resilience and Efficiency
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 36
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Interests: multilevel inverters; renewable energy systems; energy storage; model predictive control; robust control methods; power electronics; electric vehicles; frequency regulation; fractional order control; fuzzy logic control; and model-free control
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Dear Colleagues,
I am inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Sustainability entitled “Sustainable Energy Transition: Advanced Control and Optimization Techniques for Power Grid Resilience and Efficiency”.
Recently, the integration of different renewable energy systems (photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, wave, etc.) and energy storage devices (batteries, supercapacitors, superconducting magnetic energy storage, flywheels, etc.) has sharply increased to satisfy the energy transition goals. However, advanced integration, control, and design techniques are mandatory to integrate the added energy systems that have different characteristics and performance. For instance, power electronics converters are essential for grid integration, maximizing extracted energy, achieving grid resilience, increasing system efficiency, etc.
Accordingly, developing advanced control methods and design optimization techniques for future modern energy systems is essential. The control and optimization methods should push forward the energy transition goals with full reliance on renewable energy generation systems. Furthermore, enhancing the maximum power point tracking, overall system efficiency, power system reliability, and resilient operation of grid systems represent highly desirable aims. The aim of the present Special Issue is to attract original, high-quality papers and review articles proposing advanced control and optimization techniques for resilient energy transition, renewable energy systems, and energy storage devices. Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Resilient energy transition systems;
- Power system reliability;
- Advanced control methods (fractional order control, fuzzy logic control, model predictive control, sliding mode control, etc.);
- Artificial intelligent control methods (machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, etc.);
- Advanced design optimization methods;
- New and modified optimization methods;
- Renewable energy systems (photovoltaic, wind, wave, geothermal, etc.);
- Energy storage devices and their control methods;
- Electric vehicles and the vehicle-to-grid principle;
- Power electronic converters and control methods;
- Model-free control methods;
- Fault-tolerant control strategies;
- Robust control systems.
The Special Issue will present cutting-edge research results in these emerging fields as a basis for the resilient energy transition and reliable integration of renewable energy systems and energy storage devices into electrical grid systems.
Dr. Mokhtar Aly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resilient grid
- control systems
- optimization methods
- photovoltaic systems
- energy storage
- power electronics
- robust control
- wind generation
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