Smart Grids and Active Distribution Networks: Modeling, Optimization, and Planning Approaches
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F2: Distributed Energy System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 1499
Special Issue Editor
Interests: distribution network planning; microgrids; distributed generation; optimization; distribution network optimization; electric vehicles; active distribution networks; ancillary services markets
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Dear Colleagues,
The use of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles will continue to drastically change the operation of distribution systems. In opposition to conventional approaches, modern distribution planning algorithms should emulate new environments in order to produce strategic expansion plans for guiding the evolution of the system in times of financial restriction.
In addition, the integration of smart grid operation within planning algorithms is a key aspect of proper distribution planning that allows renewable resources to be integrated and minimizes the cost of new electrical infrastructures.
In this Special Issue, we invite original submissions of new research outcomes that highlight innovations in the area of planning power distribution networks.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Innovative planning techniques for MV and LV distribution networks;
- Probabilistic approaches to power distribution network planning;
- The smart management of distributed energy resources in power distribution networks;
- Regulatory requirements for innovative power distribution network planning;
- Power distribution network planning with innovative no-network solutions (flexibility exploitation);
The optimization of power distribution networks.
Dr. Gian Giuseppe Soma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- distribution network planning
- distribution network management
- distribution network optimization
- probabilistic planning
- flexibility
- distributed energy resources
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