Decentralized Control Strategies for Multi-Microgrid Systems

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of renewable energy and distributed generation technologies, the large-scale integration and coordinated operation of multi-microgrid systems are facing numerous challenges and opportunities. Decentralized control strategies offer new technical approaches to addressing issues such as power balance, voltage and frequency stability, and energy management in multi-microgrid systems. Specifically, they cover multiple research directions, including multi-layer cooperative control, distributed optimization algorithms, consensus protocols, local information interaction, event-triggering mechanisms, and resilient analysis. It can be foreseen that decentralized technologies represented by multi-agent systems, distributed optimization, and edge computing have opened up broad prospects for achieving efficient, reliable, and autonomous operation of multi-microgrid systems.

This issue's special topic will focus on the design, analysis, and application of decentralized control strategies in multi-microgrid systems, with a particular emphasis on their potential in enhancing system resilience, promoting power interactions among MGs, and achieving plug-and-play functionality. The covered topics include but are not limited to:

• Hierarchical and multi-agent control architectures;
• Distributed optimization algorithms for energy management;
• Resilience-oriented decentralized control;
• Transactive energy and market-based control;
• Robust and adaptive voltage/frequency regulation;
• Communication-limited and cyber-secure control;
• Integration of edge computing and digital twins;
• Cooperative control for inertia and ancillary services;
• AI and machine learning for distributed decision-making;
• Standardization, interoperability, and scalability.

We sincerely welcome innovative research achievements covering multiple aspects such as modeling, simulation, experimentation, and application.

Dr. Xiaoxiao Meng
Dr. Jianquan Liao
Dr. Jian Wang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.