Demand Side Management of Distributed and Uncertain Flexibilities

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject "Demand Side Management of Distributed and Uncertain Flexibilities." The concurrent growth of energy consumption and of the share of renewable energies has increased the need for optimization and control techniques of flexibilities on the demand side of electric power and energy systems. Various approaches have been proposed differing in objectives, model complexity, communication effort and computational load.

This Special Issue will deal with novel contributions that investigate the optimization and control of distributed and uncertain flexibilities. In order to maintain the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of contributions, authors will

• use the following publicly available data set that includs households' demand, PV production, EVs’ utilization, total renewable energy generation, and day-ahead prices: https://github.com/klaus-rheinberger/DSM-data
• release their computer code either by deposition in a recognized, public repository or upload as supplementary information to the publication.

Authors are allowed to use additional data sets if these are also freely accessible and are referenced by the authors.

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

• Distributed Demand Side Management
• Incentive Based Demand Response
• Uni- and Bidirectional Communication Infrastructures
• Real Time Pricing
• Bilevel optimization
• Power Matching
• Model Predictive Control
• Cost Minimization
• Welfare Maximization
• Peak Shaving
• Minimization of Customer Discomfort
• Grid Security Maximization
• Maximization of Renewable Energy Integration
• Power Loss Minimization

Dr. Klaus Rheinberger
Dr. Peter Kepplinger
Guest Editors

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