Energy Management System for Smart Grids

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decades, the growing presence of prosumers (i.e., local energy consumers and producers) and the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) from renewable energy sources (RES) are posing new challenges to all energy stakeholders: reverse power flows, monitoring of the power quality, grid stability, and many more. Coordination between the different stakeholders, from energy producers through transmission and distribution system operators (TSO and DSO) down to the energy service company (ESCo) and to the customers, is essential for the management of the power grid. The smart grid paradigm, based on a strict integration between power grids and ICT infrastructures, is the key technology for achieving such coordination. The development of power systems with a high presence of RESs has been shown to be more a conceptual limitation, rather than an effective technological barrier. The main socio-technical issues still open are the intermittency and unreliability of RESs, increasing the diffusion of energy prosumers, market stability in dynamic and deregulated systems, and reliability and resilience of highly dynamic systems with heterogeneous DERs. The successful management of such challenges requires extensive monitoring of the state of the grid and integration and harmonization of these data at various aggregation levels, from end-users to the grid management and control. The aim of this Special Issue is to assess how recent advances in the design and implementation of energy management systems (EMS) would help to face these challenges, by allowing improved optimal energy usage, integration of DER, self-reliability, and enhanced control capabilities.

This issue welcomes theoretical papers, methodological studies and empirical research (or combination thereof) concerning (but not limited to) the design and the deployment of energy management systems, and the required ICT infrastructures, for the optimization of energy at different levels, from the building up to the distribution grid, to improve the quality of the service and a sustainable usage of the energy and to optimize the integration of renewables into smart grids.

Prof. Dr. Stefano Rinaldi
Dr. Davide Della Giustina
Guest Editors

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