Microgrids Integrating Renewable Energy Sources, Fuel Cells and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Generation and management of distributed electricity using Fuel Cell (FC) / Renewable Microgrids integrating FC / Electric Hybrid Vehicles represents a challenging and feasible opportunity for the next decade to reduce CO₂ emissions if the potential of hydrogen and renewable energy are used effectively using advanced Control Techniques and Energy Management Strategies. Thus, a limitation of global warming to 2 °C can be achieved by replacing fossil fuels with hydrogen-based energy and renewable sources.

In this Special Issue, entitled “Control Techniques and Energy Management Strategies for Fuel Cell (FC) / Renewable Microgrids integrating FC / Electric Hybrid Vehicles”, the latest proposals and paradigms based on by the keywords below related to hybrid microgrid integrating FC / Electric Hybrid Vehicles will be collected. The present Special Issue aims to include innovative Control Techniques and Energy Management Strategies for power converters and experimental research in FC / Renewable Microgrids supported by appropriate modeling and design, but also state-of-the-art studies, in the following topics:

• Fuel Cell (FC) systems;
• Hybrid FC / Renewable Microgrids;
• Hybrid Power Systems (HPSs);
• FC / electric hybrid vehicles;
• Renewable Energy Sources (RESs);
• Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESSs);
• Energy Management and Optimization Strategies for FC/RES HPS;
• Control of the power converters;
• Control, optimization and energy management strategies for FC / Electric Hybrid Vehicles;
• Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) architectures;
• Cyber-security in communication between the microgrids based on IoT Blockchain technology and smart contracts;
• Reliability, maintenance, resilience and safety in operation of the power systems;

Papers received are subject to a rigorous, but fast, peer review procedure, ensuring wide dissemination of research results accepted for this Special Issue. I am writing to invite you to submit your original work to this Special Issue. I am looking forward to receiving your outstanding research outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Nicu Bizon
Prof. Dr. Mihai Oproescu
Guest Editor

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