The Future of Distributed Energy: Microgrid Design, Operation, and Optimization
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microelectronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microgrids have become an important path to build zero-carbon energy systems, enhance energy resilience, and achieve low-carbon goals. At the design level, microgrids need to balance topology flexibility, stability, and economy. For example, an AC/DC hybrid microgrid can improve energy efficiency by reducing the number of converter links, and different structural designs and optimized configurations can be adapted to meet different scenario requirements. At the operational level, AC microgrids, DC microgrids, and AC/DC hybrid microgrids have diverse collaborative control and protection strategies, and high-stability operational control capabilities are an important foundation. At the optimization level, value realization, such as distributed resource aggregation, economic dispatch, green power trading, and auxiliary services, can stimulate the flexible regulation potential of the microgrid.
This Special Issue welcomes innovative research in the design, operation, and optimization of microgrids. The information provided in this Special Issue will benefit academic researchers and industry stakeholders in this area.
The topics to be addressed in the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- System integration and optimization design of microgrids.
- Stability analysis of microgrids.
- Collaborative control strategy for microgrids.
- Intrusion prevention, detection, and isolation of microgrids.
- System recovery strategy for microgrids.
- Optimization scheduling methods for microgrids.
- Interactive transactions between microgrids and power grids.
- Security and elastic operation strategies for microgrids.
- Trustworthy artificial intelligence technology for microgrids.
Prof. Dr. Wei Deng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microgrid
- system design
- stability analysis
- collaborative control
- optimization
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