Advances in Energy Market and Distributed Generation

Dear Colleagues,

Existing power systems are undergoing a significant transformation towards achieving a lower emission, more reliable, and more affordable operation. This objective is complicated, multi level, and practically challenging to achieve due to the highly dynamic operation issues at the generation, transmission, and distribution levels. With a specific focus on the distribution level, there is huge potential for transforming the challenging operation issues into opportunistic solutions for the whole system, including providing voltage and frequency support. By investigating the issue further, managing the distribution networks through a deregulated energy market would further promote a highly efficient and more reliable distribution of the power, which, in turn, can be of great support to the transmission networks. This problem requires comprehensive research in the field of smart grids, demand management, electric vehicles (EV) fleet management, optimal sizing, and the planning of distributed energy resources (DER). Considering the above topics, this Special Issue is targeting the most recent advances related to the management of modern distribution networks, which integrate a high level of DER. The main objective is to investigate the design and implementation of a distributed energy market and a distribution system operation concept.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Distributed energy resources (DER)
• Electric vehicles (EV)
• Battery energy storage system (BESS)
• Demand management
• Distribution energy market
• Peer-to-peer energy trading
• Multi-agent systems
• Distribution network service provider
• Distribution independent system operation (DISO)
• Distribution network planning
• Distribution feeders voltage control
• Distribution network operation
• DER forecasting
• Load forecasting
• Smart metering
• Smart grid

Dr. Thair Mahmoud
Guest Editor

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• distributed energy resources
• demand management
• distribution energy market
• distribution network
• smart grid