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Renewable Energy Power Generation and Integrated Energy Networks

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 399

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yang Li

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School of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai Universitiy, Nanjing 210024, China
Interests: multi-energy systems; hydropower
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Dr. Linjun Shi

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School of Electrical and Power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Interests: analysis and control of power systems; application of new energy; energy storage systems in power systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the increasingly severe problem of global climate change and fossil energy shortage, decarbonization strategies have been widely established by many countries. Renewable energy does not produce pollutants and contributes to sustainable society and economic growth with much lower carbon emissions. To achieve this objective, renewable energy sources (RES) such as wind power and photovoltaic (PV) are developed very quickly.

However, the randomness and variability of RES power threaten power grid operation, and generation curtailment significantly restricts the expansion of RES energy. Complementary management of RES power with other power sources provides an effective way to address this challenge. To this end, the coordination of flexible resources and renewable energy is preferred as an optional power source for replacing fossil fuels to alleviate the weather crisis and achieve cleaner and more sustainable energy systems.

This Special Issue aims at shedding light on potential technological and regulatory solutions to the trustworthy, economic, and complementary operation of renewable energy.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

  • Prediction, modeling, and valuation of renewable energy generation.
  • Research mode and economy of complementary systems.
  • Integrated modeling and simulation technology of renewable energy systems.
  • Efficient and secure grid integration of massive renewable energy resources.
  • Optimal design and sizing for off-grid hybrid energy systems.
  • Novel renewable energy-dominated hybrid systems.
  • Variable transmission technologies.
  • Analysis of the application prospects of energy storage technology under carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

Dr. Yang Li
Dr. Linjun Shi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • renewable energy
  • multi-energy complementary systems
  • coordination of power grids and power plants
  • operation optimization
  • uncertainty analysis

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Optimization of Pumped Storage Capacity Configuration Considering Inertia Constraints and Duration Selection
by Lingkai Zhu, Ziwei Zhong, Danwen Hua, Junshan Guo, Zhiqiang Gong, Kai Liang, Wei Zheng, Linjun Shi, Feng Wu and Yang Li
Electronics 2026, 15(1), 175; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15010175 - 30 Dec 2025
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In response to the decline in the inertia level of the power system caused by the large-scale integration of new energy, this paper proposes a grid-side pumped storage configuration strategy considering inertia constraints. The general pumped storage configuration ignores the duration of pumped [...] Read more.
In response to the decline in the inertia level of the power system caused by the large-scale integration of new energy, this paper proposes a grid-side pumped storage configuration strategy considering inertia constraints. The general pumped storage configuration ignores the duration of pumped storage and selects only single-duration units for capacity and power configuration. A single unit cannot balance rapid frequency response and long-term energy transfer, forcing thermal power to operate at high costs continuously to provide inertia support, while also causing a sharp increase in wind and solar power curtailment. This paper breaks through the limitations of the traditional single-duration pumped storage configuration and proposes a configuration-operation collaborative optimization strategy that combines inertia constraints and pumped storage duration selection. Firstly, starting from the system’s inertia requirements, the minimum inertia required by the system is obtained, respectively, based on the constraints of the system’s frequency change rate and the lowest point of the frequency. Furthermore, the minimum inertia demand constraint of the power system is constructed, and a capacity configuration strategy for grid-side pumped storage is proposed with the goal of minimizing the total operating cost of the power system throughout its entire cycle, taking into account the penalty term of the peak-valley difference index of the load curve and the penalty of the inertia guarantee value of medium and long-term units, while considering the inertia constraint. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method were verified through simulation analysis. Full article
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