Applied Technologies for Renewable Energies Integration in Power Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Power and energy conversion, distribution and management face critical challenges in the current context of energy transition. Novel equipment designs, control strategies, approaches and techniques are beign developed to achieve the necessary improvements in full-scale power systems. Integrating renewable energy sources, storage and distribution in a conventional electrical grid network is also a fundamental milestone toward achieving the smart grid concept. A multidisciplinary approach is essential for achieving these goals, along with adhering to the UN SDG (Agenda 2030) and the commitment to the de-carbonization of society.

Novel emerging energy vectors, such as marine power and biofuels, and classical energy vectors, such as wind or solar energy, constitute the distributed generational core of future smart grid. Their integration should be able to cope with the associated generation intermittencies and uncertainties. These issues drive power quality degradation, protection management challenges, and a lack of efficiency in generation and distribution, etc.

The scope of this Special Issue comprises renewable energies conversion efficiency, enhancement in power quality, applied techniques for electrical machines and generation, novel power electronic equipment, smart sensors, renewable energies integration, marine power, on-shore and off-shore wind power, solar power, biofuels and biomass.

The main topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

1. Power systems integration;
2. Power quality in distribution;
3. Electronic equipment and instrumentation for electrotechnical applications;
4. Renewable energies conversion efficiency and sustainable development;
5. Applied techniques in energy systems and electrical machinery (control);
6. Smart sensors/sensors arrays and virtual instrumentation;
7. IoT for industrial automation or energy management;
8. Active power filters designs for power quality;
9. Protections in distribution networks;
10. Renewable energies systems integration (wind, marine, solar, biomass);
11. Frequency and voltage stability in power systems.

Dr. Jorge El Mariachet
Prof. Dr. José Matas
Guest Editors

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