New Application Methods of Renewable Energy in Smart Grid
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 64
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electric machines and drives; power electronics; motor efficiency and condition monitoring
Interests: microgrid systems; cyber-physical power system; the discrete element method (dem); granular materials; photovoltaics and electrification in agriculture
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Dear Colleagues,
Aims and rationale:
This Special Issue seeks original research and reviews that translate renewable energy advances into deployable, system-aware methods for smart grids. We welcome contributions that will contribute to improvements in the stability, power quality, resilience, market operation, and cybersecurity of converter and Distributed Energy Resource (DER)-dominated networks, including studies validated using rigorous analysis, high-fidelity simulation, hardware-in-the-loop or field data, or pilot deployments.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
- Grid-Forming/Supporting Controls: Synthetic inertia, grid-forming dispatch, FRT/CCR, weak-grid oscillation damping, and multi-converter coordination.
- Synchronous Condensers (SCs): Inertia and short-circuit strength provision, SC–GFM coordination, dynamic and small-signal performance, planning/retrofit strategies, protection and EMT interactions, and techno-economic assessments.
- Vehicle-to-Grid and Prosumers: V2G/G2V scheduling, aggregator control, EV-PV-storage microgrids, and demand response with comfort/mission constraints.
- Protection and Situational Awareness: Adaptive protection in low-inertia grids, synchrophasor/waveform analytics, digital substations, and event-driven operations.
- Energy Management and Storage: Hybrid storage control (electrochemical/thermal/mechanical), lifecycle-aware dispatch, black-start/islanding, and resilience metrics.
- Power Quality and EMC: Harmonics/interharmonics in converter-rich systems, resonance prediction/mitigation, and standard-conformant test methods.
- Trustworthy AI/ML and Digital Twins: Physics-informed learning, uncertainty/bias/robustness, online/edge learning, cyber-physical co-simulation, and model validation using real data.
- Reliability, Resilience, and Cybersecurity: Extreme-event operation, restoration, DER orchestration under cyber threats, and risk-based planning under uncertainty.
- Markets, Policy, and JET: Tariff design, ancillary-service valuation of DER/SCs, and just energy transition pathways.
Expected contributions should include the following:
- A clear problem statement, novelty, sound models/derivations, and/or provable algorithms.
- Transparent datasets, baselines, and statistically defensible evaluations.
- Reproducibility (code/data/model cards where feasible), as well as sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.
- Where possible, HIL, lab prototypes, pilots, or utility data to evidence deployability.
Dr. Lesedi Masisi
Dr. Pitshou N. Bokoro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- grid-forming controls
- weak-grid stability
- synchronous condensers
- Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V)
- digital substations
- hybrid storage systems
- trustworthy AI/ML
- digital twins
- resonance
- electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
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