Microgrid Design and Operation Based on Smart Management Systems and Transactive Energy Concepts

Dear Colleagues,

The environmental challenges facing electricity generation are leading to a proliferation of scientific research aimed at transforming the way we know the electricity sector today. Scientists and engineers around the world are working on designing new decentralized electricity distribution networks, based on smart grid concepts such as smart metering, local and distributed network control, and smart utility and home energy management systems. On the technical side, these require new methods and algorithms, ranging in scale from large electrical networks, to microgrids and individual homes. Smart electricity networks with embedded digital equipment and distributed generation enable the creation of microgrid-level trading mechanisms for clean electricity and energy poverty mitigation. Innovative technology and concepts such as blockchain, crowdsourcing, local storage, and EV integration, need to be better understood and applied in real-world applications. This Special Issue aims to gather some of the latest efforts for creating novel management systems, trading mechanisms, and technical ideas, applied, but not limited to, microgrids with distributed generation, taking advantage of the concepts presented above, with regard to energy efficiency and influence on the current state-of-the-art in electricity network operation and control.

Submissions to this Special Issue are directed, but not limited to, the following main areas:

• Prosumers and small-scale electricity generation;
• Microgrid community and crowdsourcing concept;
• Smart grid flexibility management;
• Peer-to-peer energy trading in microgrids;
• Blockchain for decentralized management of DR programs;
• Flexibility assessment and forecasting;
• Energy management for electric vehicles integration;
• Virtual power plant;
• Energy assets decentralized coordination;
• Energy markets operation and coordinated clearance mechanisms
• Demand response;
• Microgrid design and operation;
• Smart management systems;
• Transactive energy concepts;
• Information and communication technologies.

Dr. Bogdan-Constantin Neagu
Dr. Ovidiu Ivanov
Guest Editors

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