Smart and Sustainable Energy Grids, Buildings and Cities

Dear Colleagues,

Smart grids have the potential to offer enhanced efficiency, flexibility, and reliability through automated control and optimization using modern communication infrastructures and intelligent energy management. As significant consumers of energy, buildings will play a critical role in the transition to distributed smart energy grids. Remote control and management of building systems and appliances will be necessary to utilize the flexibility of buildings on the demand side, and to an extent on the supply side when onsite micro-generation is taken into account. The integration of distributed renewable energy generation technologies into the smart grid also requires the consideration of their intermittency and probabilistic nature. Developments in sensor technologies, artificial intelligence, low-power embedded computing, and the internet of things (IoT) offer opportunities to integrate buildings and cities into smart energy grids to realize their potential for contribution to a sustainable energy future.

In this Special Issue, we welcome manuscripts that range from theory to applications and case studies related to smart energy grids where buildings, neighbourhoods, districts, and cities play a role. Review and survey papers are also welcome provided that they offer new insights based on critical analysis and synthesis of the state-of-the-art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• artificial intelligence;
• building energy management;
• demand side management;
• district and community energy solutions;
• edge and cloud computing;
• energy systems;
• flexibility;
• forecasting;
• internet of Things (IoT);
• modelling and simulation;
• renewable energy;
• sensor networks;
• smart energy grids;
• smart materials.

Prof. Dr. Monjur Mourshed
Dr. Baris Yuce
Dr. Mokarram Hossain
Guest Editors

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