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Improving Energy Efficiency in Smart Grids

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2820

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Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain
Interests: information fusion; knowledge representation; machine learning; energy efficiency

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Guest Editor
Data Science Institute (DSI), Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, UK
Interests: data mining; machine learning and knowledge representation applied in different areas such as music, energy management and healthcare

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Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests: data assimilation; machine learning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Guest Editor Dr. Juan Gómez Romero is inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Improving Energy Efficiency in Smart Grids.”

Smart grids (SGs) are revolutionizing energy management and use. Traditional monolithic infrastructure is being replaced by one involving multiple components, which generate, store, and consume energy. This scenario calls for innovative solutions, capable of seamlessly orchestrating multiple and heterogeneous actors and efficiently delivering energy to the whole system. The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (IA) have emerged as the key enabling technologies to achieve these goals.

This Special Issue will focus on novel methods, algorithms, and technologies to increase energy efficiency in SGs. Applied works with experimental results are also welcome.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Communication and coordination in SGs;
  • Distributed energy management;
  • Optimal use of renewable energy in SGs;
  • Energy efficiency and microgrids;
  • Single and multiple building energy control;
  • Prediction of energy production and/or demand in SGs;
  • Energy efficiency at the intersection of smart grids and smart cities;
  • Multi-agent systems for SGs;
  • Applications of IoT and AI to increase energy efficiency in SGs;
  • Legal and ethical aspects of energy optimization in SGs.
Dr. Juan Gómez Romero
Dr Miguel Molina-Solana
Dr. Rossella Arcucci
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • smart grids
  • energy optimization
  • artificial intelligence
  • internet of things
  • control methods
  • communication and coordination
  • predictive models.

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17 pages, 6709 KiB  
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Model-Free Dynamic Voltage Control of Distributed Energy Resource (DER)-Based Microgrids
by Kenan Hatipoglu, Mohammed Olama and Yaosuo Xue
Energies 2020, 13(15), 3838; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13153838 - 27 Jul 2020
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In this paper, we present a new control technique for sustaining dynamic voltage stability by effective reactive power control and coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) in microgrids. The proposed control technique is based on model-free control (MFC), which has shown successful operation [...] Read more.
In this paper, we present a new control technique for sustaining dynamic voltage stability by effective reactive power control and coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) in microgrids. The proposed control technique is based on model-free control (MFC), which has shown successful operation and improved performance in different domains and applications. This paper presents its first use in the voltage stability of a microgrid setting employing multiple synchronous generator (SG)-based and power electronic (PE)-based DERs. MFC is a computationally efficient, data-driven control technique that does not require modelling of the different components and disturbances in the power system. It is utilized as an online controller to achieve the dynamic voltage stability of a microgrid system under different disturbances and fault conditions. A 21-bus microgrid system fed by multiple DERs is considered as a case study and the overall dynamic voltage stability is investigated using time-domain dynamic simulations. Numerical results show that the proposed MFC provides improvements on the dynamic load bus voltage profiles and requires less computational time as compared to the traditional enhanced microgrid voltage stabilizer (EMGVS) scheme. Due to its simplicity and low computational requirement, MFC can be easily implemented in resource-constrained computing devices such as smart inverters. Full article
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