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Towards a Sustainable Future: Addressing AI and Big Data, Energy, Climate, and Public Healthcare Challenges

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 2992

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Dr. Vesselin Chobanov

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Faculty of Automatics, Technical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: field of grid integration challenges of renewable energy sources and prospective solutions ; complexity of power system processes; on-going transformation of power systems: impacts of renewable energies; energy transformation; impacts of prosumers and electrical vehicles; impacts of liberalization and power markets; reducing carbon footprint; amendment of legislation; grid integration challenges for power systems with high shares of fluctuating renewable energy sources (RES): trends & challenges in power system operation; role of operational flexibility in power systems; modeling and analysis of power systems and their operation

Dr. Todor Galev

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Research Department, Center for the Study of Democracy, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: energy security; innovation policies; alternative energy technologies; geopolitical dimensions of energy and financial markets

Prof. Dr. Marco Mussetta

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Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, MI, Italy
Interests: computational intelligence; optimization; machine learning; fuzzy logic; wireless sensor networks; renewable energy; photovoltaics; wind power; forecasting
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Dear Colleagues,

The Energy Union is taking important action to address global issues, including the COVID-19 outbreak, military activity, and climate change and disasters. They must enable unrestricted cross-border energy flow and secure the supply in every EU country, for every European, making energy more secure, cheap, and sustainable.

By introducing new technologies and modernized infrastructure, the Energy Union will reduce/contain costs while creating new jobs and skills. This will lead to a more sustainable, low-carbon, and green economy, putting Europe at the forefront of renewable energy production and global warming mitigation. By addressing the challenges facing the energy industry and improving opportunities for public health development, we can work towards a more sustainable future for all.

Rapidly developing technologies cannot always ensure the security of supply, availability of energy, and sustainability of energy consumption, which necessitates a discussion of the methodologies, analyses, impacts, and issues that the energy business will face as a result of climate change as well as these aspects impact on public health.

This Special Issue aims to contribute to long-term decisions based on a scientific approach that can influence future strategic decisions and policies in the sector.

Participants can write on one of the listed topics but are not limited to:

Mathematical models for managing challenges—energy, climate, public health;
The relationship between energy poverty and energy security;
Diversification of the import of energy raw materials;
Smart control of climate resilience;
Energy transitions;
Energy availability and sustainability of energy consumption;
Impact of the Green Deal on Climate change and Public health;
Baseline risk analysis;
Green Healthcare Providers (Green Hospitals, etc..);
Energy security and sustainability of energy consumption in the context of Climate change/ Public health;
Opportunities to improve public health based on artificial intelligence, big data, etc.;
Systems of the future with impact on strategic sectors-energy, climate, and public health.

Dr. Vesselin Chobanov
Dr. Todor Galev
Dr. Marco Mussetta
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Keywords

renewable energy
power quality
diversification
energy transition
energy poverty
energy security
green deal
climate change
public health
big data
AI
healthcare

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From Sensors to Insights: An Original Method for Consumer Behavior Identification in Appliance Usage

by Raluca Laura Portase, Ramona Tolas and Rodica Potolea

Electronics 2024, 13(7), 1364; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13071364 - 04 Apr 2024

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In light of the energy crisis, extensive research is being conducted to enhance load forecasting, optimize the targeting of demand response programs, and advise building occupants on actions to enhance energy performance. Cluster analysis is increasingly applied to usage data across all consumer types. More accurate consumer identification translates to improved resource planning. In the context of Industry 4.0, where comprehensive data are collected across various domains, we propose using existing sensor data from household appliances to extract the usage patterns and characterize the resource demands of consumers from residential households. We propose a general pipeline for extracting features from raw sensor data alongside global features for clustering device usages and classifying them based on extracted time series. We applied the proposed method to real data from three different types of household devices. We propose a strategy to identify the number of existent clusters in real data. We employed the label data obtained from clustering for the classification of consumers based on data recorded on different time ranges and achieved an increase in accuracy of up to 15% when we expanded the time range for the recorded data on the entire dataset, obtaining an accuracy of over 99.89%. We further explore the data meta-features for a minimal dataset by examining the necessary time interval for the recorded data, dataset dimensions, and the feature set. This analysis aims to achieve an effective trade-off between time and performance. Full article

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Implementation of Nonlinear Controller to Improve DC Microgrid Stability: A Comparative Analysis of Sliding Mode Control Variants

by Syeda Shafia Zehra, Alberto Dolara, Muhammad Ahsan Amjed and Marco Mussetta

Electronics 2023, 12(21), 4540; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12214540 - 04 Nov 2023

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Electricity generation from sustainable renewable energy sources is constantly accelerating due to a rapid increase in demand from consumers. This requires an effective energy management and control system to fulfil the power demand without compromising the system’s performance. For this application, a nonlinear barrier sliding mode controller (BSMC) for a microgrid formed with PV, a fuel cell and an energy storage system comprising a battery and supercapacitor working in grid-connected mode is implemented. The advantages of the BSMC are twofold: The sliding surface oscillates in the close vicinity of zero by adapting an optimal gain value to ensure the smooth tracking of power to its references without overestimating the gains. Secondly, it exhibits a noticeable robustness to variations and disturbance, which is the bottleneck of the problem in a grid-connected mode. The stability of the presented controllers was analyzed with the Lyapunov stability criterion. Moreover, a comparison of the BSMC with sliding mode and supertwisting sliding mode controllers was carried out in MATLAB/Simulink (2020b) with real PV experimental data. The results and the numerical analysis verify the effectiveness of the BSMC in regulating the DC bus voltage in the presence of an external disturbance under varying conventional load and environmental conditions. Full article

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Conversational Agents for Energy Awareness and Efficiency: A Survey

by Manuela Sanguinetti and Maurizio Atzori

Electronics 2024, 13(2), 401; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020401 - 18 Jan 2024

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The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote energy efficiency is crucial to achieve the energy transition and sustainable development goals. The availability of tools that provide clear information on energy consumption plays a key role in this transition, enabling users to monitor, manage, and optimize their energy use. This process, commonly referred to as energy feedback or eco-feedback, involves delivering information regarding energy usage and potentially suggesting more sustainable practices. Within the range of available tools, conversational agents can represent a valuable channel to receive detailed information about energy consumption and tailored advice for improving energy efficiency. The aim of this article is thus to explore the application of conversational agents, focusing on eco-feedback, as these tools are primarily devised to foster user awareness of energy usage and enhance more participatory conservation strategies. To this end, we conducted a keyword-based search of major scientific article databases, applying strict criteria to select relevant studies. The results of the collection showed that there is a very diverse landscape with respect to this topic. The surveyed works exhibit a high versatility in feedback goals. Furthermore, while predominantly applied domestically, they also show potential in commercial and industrial settings. Implementation choices also vary to a great extent, while evaluation practices lack a systematic approach and highlight the need for greater consistency. In light of these remarks, we also outline possible future extensions of this type of application, exploring in particular the emerging challenges associated with the increased use of renewable sources and the rise of local decentralized energy communities. Full article

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