Smart Management of Distributed Energy Resources

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite submissions to the Special Issue on “Smart Management of Distributed Energy Resources”.

The transition to a low-carbon economy and more stringent environmental targets will involve major changes to the way we supply and use electricity over coming years. There will be a complex mix of technologies for generating, transmitting, distributing, and storing electricity by 2050. Distribution networks are facing significant challenges to accommodate the increasing number of distributed energy resources (DER), including the impacts associated with the electrification of transport and heating sectors. In order to transition into a low carbon and digitised network, a more flexible demand side is required. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to demonstrate how intelligent control and market design, suitable for both current and future needs, can remove barriers to a high level of distributed energy resources integration.

In this Special Issue, we invite original and unpublished research work in areas including (but not limited to)

• Distributed energy resources as flexibility service providers
• Aggregators, and virtual power plants to facilitate DER integration
• Forecasting distributed energy resources
• Solutions to use DER for resolving transmission constraints (active and reactive power services)
• Advanced data and intelligent control systems for a high level of DER integration
• The demonstration of intelligent control systems (centralised, decentralised, and hierarchical) for DER integration
• Electric vehicles and vehicle to grid to provide flexibility services
• DER trading for ancillary services and balancing markets
• Blockchain and distributed ledger solutions for electricity market design
• Applications of IoT to combine edge and cloud resources, and local forecast of DER
• Improving visibility beyond the meter of energy production, consumption and storage
• Multi agent systems for DER management

Dr. Liana Cipcigan
Guest Editor

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