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Energy Management of Renewable Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2025) | Viewed by 798

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Dear Colleagues,

Depending on the type of application and its scale (utility-scale solar power plants, medium-scale commercial systems, building-integrated solar energy systems, or small-scale applications down to energy harvested for wearable devices and sensor networks), the design and management of the solar power system should be considered when addressing the energy needs of the application whether on-grid or off-grid, based on the geographic location of the site and other factors, aiming at the most cost-effective and competitive configuration with a long system lifetime. Recent research focuses on the management of the interdisciplinary, intelligent, and innovative configurations of renewable energy systems, contributing to increased efficiency, reliability, and overall system yield.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Innovations photovoltaic system;
  • Innovations thermal solar system;
  • Thermal management systems for photovoltaic cells and panels in natural and concentrated light;
  • Energy management of the small energy harvesting systems;
  • Management of the energy storage systems;
  • Solar hybrid power system management using Modular Multilevel Converter;
  • Reliability and feasibility studies and consideration of critical issues encountered in solar hybrid power systems;
  • Management of the grid integration of solar power systems;
  • Energy management of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Tudor Cotfas
Dr. Petru Adrian Cotfas
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Keywords

  • energy management
  • photovoltaic systems
  • thermal systems
  • energy harvesting
  • energy storage
  • grid integration
  • HVAC systems

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PV Generation Prediction Using Multilayer Perceptron and Data Clustering for Energy Management Support
by Fachrizal Aksan, Vishnu Suresh and Przemysław Janik
Energies 2025, 18(6), 1378; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18061378 - 11 Mar 2025
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Accurate PV power generation forecasting is critical to enable grid utilities to manage energy effectively. This study presents an approach that combines machine learning with a clustering methodology to improve the accuracy of predictions for energy management purposes. First, various machine learning models [...] Read more.
Accurate PV power generation forecasting is critical to enable grid utilities to manage energy effectively. This study presents an approach that combines machine learning with a clustering methodology to improve the accuracy of predictions for energy management purposes. First, various machine learning models were compared, and multilayer perceptron (MLP) outperformed others by effectively capturing the complex relationships between weather parameters and PV power output, obtaining the following results: MSE: 3.069, RMSE: 1.752, and MAE: 1.139. To improve the performance of MLP, weather characteristics that are highly correlated with PV power outputs, such as irradiation and sun elevation, were grouped using K-means clustering. The elbow method identified four optimal clusters, and individual MLP models were trained on each, reducing data complexity and improving model focus. This clustering-based approach significantly improved the accuracy of the predictions, resulting in average metrics across all clusters of the following: MSE: 0.761, RMSE: 0.756, and MAE: 0.64. Despite these improvements, further research on optimizing the MLP architecture and clustering methodology is required to address inconsistencies and achieve even better performance. Full article
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