Advanced Power Conversion, Operation and Control for Future-Ready Smart Grids

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 1323

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Microgrid and Renewable Energy Research Center, Huanjiang Laboratory, Zhuji 311800, China
Interests: AC/DC microgrids; hierarchical controls; microgrid clusters; fast-time domain methods; harmonic analysis; stability analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

The integration of renewable energy sources and the evolution of smart grids have revolutionized modern power systems, presenting new challenges and opportunities in power conversion, operation and control, and system analysis. As the demand for efficient, reliable, and flexible renewable-enabled power systems continues to grow, power converters and their control mechanisms play an increasingly critical role in ensuring stable and optimized grid operations.

The present Special Issue, “Advanced Power Conversion, Operation and Control for Future-Ready Smart Grids”, seeks to collect reviews and research articles that advance the understanding of emerging power conversion technologies, operation and control strategies, and system analysis within the context of smart grids. We invite submissions that explore both the theoretical and practical aspects, offering insights into how these technologies can be leveraged to enhance grid performance, integrate renewable energy, and ensure system stability under varying operational conditions. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, advanced power converter designs, control strategies for grid-connected converters, the integration of renewable energy sources, the real-time monitoring and control of power converters, power quality management, fault detection and mitigation, the applications of AI and machine learning, energy storage integration, microgrid clustering, microgrid cluster control, renewable-based system analysis, wide area operation, and smart inverter technologies for distributed energy resources.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Fanfan Lin
Dr. Gibran David Agundis Tinajero
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Keywords

  • power converters
  • smart grids
  • renewable energy integration
  • control strategies
  • AI and machine learning
  • energy storage systems
  • power quality management
  • fault detection
  • real-time monitoring
  • smart inverters
  • transient and steady-state analysis

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Power Flow Modeling for Battery Energy Storage Systems with Hierarchical Control for Islanded Microgrids
by Gibran David Agundis Tinajero and Josep M. Guerrero
Electronics 2024, 13(24), 4927; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13244927 - 13 Dec 2024
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This paper presents a novel power flow problem formulation for hierarchically controlled battery energy storage systems in islanded microgrids. The formulation considers droop-based primary control, and proportional–integral secondary control for frequency and voltage restoration. Several case studies are presented where different operation conditions [...] Read more.
This paper presents a novel power flow problem formulation for hierarchically controlled battery energy storage systems in islanded microgrids. The formulation considers droop-based primary control, and proportional–integral secondary control for frequency and voltage restoration. Several case studies are presented where different operation conditions are selected to highlight the battery formulation reliability and its necessity for detailed power flow analysis. Furthermore, the case studies consider wind-based generation units with power curves, probability-based wind distributions, and load profiles. The results obtained show the proposed formulation features for emulating a hierarchically controlled battery in an islanded system with practical operating conditions; moreover, it is shown that including controllers into the power flow formulation is necessary for obtaining more reliable steady-state solutions for islanded microgrid systems. Full article
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