Distributed Optimization and Control of Power Grids
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power electronics conversion and control; renewable energy generation technologies; motor drive technologies; smart microgrid technologies; wireless power transfer technologies
Interests: planning, analysis, and security protection of distribution networks with distributed energy sources and energy storage
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Dear Colleagues,
Traditionally, power grids adopt centralized optimization and control approaches with data collected and processed at a control center. However, over the past decades, a large amount of distributed power sources have been connected to power grid and outputted powers of distributed power sources based on wind and solar energy, which are intermittent and poses many challenges to traditional centralized optimization and control. In contrast, distributed optimization and control addresses these challenges by allowing many local controllers to cooperatively solve large optimization problems. Thus, this Special Issue will focus on the optimization and control of microgrids, renewable energy power grid, hybrid power grid with high-penetrated renewable energy and energy storage systems. Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions or survey papers for publication in this Special Issue of Electronics, titled “Distributed Optimization and Control of Power Grids”. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics in the field of power-electronic-based smart grid and its control technology:
- Advances in distributed energy system and control;
- Distributed energy sources and energy storage system integration;
- Advances in optimization and control of microgrids;
- Advances in optimization and control of renewable energy power grid;
- Advances in optimization and control of hybrid power grid;
- Stability analysis and optimization;
- Frequency and voltage control of power grid.
Dr. Sheng Hu
Dr. Jinrui Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed energy system
- renewable energy sources
- energy storage systems
- optimization and control
- stability analysis and control
- frequency and voltage control
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