IT Applications for Optimal System Design of Microgrid

Dear colleagues,

Microgrids can provide various advantages to customers and system operators, such as improvement of energy resiliency and reliability, integration of renewable energy resources, and management of local controllable loads and energy storage devices. There are many successful cases of field demonstrations and commercial operation of microgrids connected to the grids or islanded in the world.

To deal with various objectives for microgrid operation, real-time management of microgrids and coordinated control of its components are essential. Advanced IT technologies are needed to implement energy management functions such as system monitoring, state estimation, optimization, decision-making algorithms, and so on. Especially, microgrid management systems can host state-of-the-art IT technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things (IoT), big data, and cloud computing to provide sophisticated grid-supportive functions like demand response programs, virtual power plants and so on for better performance.

This Special Issue focuses on state-of-the-art IT applications and their system design for microgrid control and management systems. The scope of this Special Issue includes (but is not limited to) the following:

• Energy data management techniques and IT infrastructure for microgrids
• Intelligent coordination and control system of distributed energy resources (DER)
• Intelligent data processing and decision-making structure for microgrids
• Optimal design and analysis techniques for microgrid system design
• Energy data management and service platform for microgrids
• Advanced sensors and data networks for microgrids

Prof. Il-Yop Chung
Prof. Yun-Su Kim
Guest Editors

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