Challenges with Microgrids, Mini-Grids, and Nanogrids in Remote Communities: Modeling, Control, and Operation

Dear Colleagues,

With the increase in global demands for electrical energy, the need to use hybrid systems to support power generation systems has increased. This has led to the emergence of new challenges that are represented by the use of these systems and their integration with each other in order to obtain optimal energy. Extensive research efforts to meet this demand have prompted many innovations to develop highly reliable and flexible microgrid systems. The smart, nano, mini, and microgrid systems, which are decentralized systems, are based on the integration of several sources of energy (renewable or fossil) into a smart power management grid that aims to realize the global energy-feeding targets while achieving low CO2 pollution, minimum cost, and power production security. Control strategies are used as solutions for problems that mainly occur during the integration of isolated microgrids to the main grid at both high and low voltage levels. Otherwise, all of the efficacy enhancements to renewable resources and to storage systems can represent good contributions that aim to achieve better power prices and durability. Likewise, the safety, reliability, and resilience of these sources of energy based on renewable sources, such as wind turbines, photovoltaic cells, biomass systems, and so on, in microgrid and hybrid electric power systems are a good addition. Production predictions made using artificial intelligence and smart systems can control the weather variables and complicated circumstances.
This Special Issue aims to encourage researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their original and high-quality research (new theories, methods, techniques, and applications) in the fields of the new generation of hybrid renewable energy, electrical power, renewable energy integration, and electric vehicles systems related to the aforementioned topics. In particular, potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Smart grids, nanogrids, minigrids, and microgrids
• Strengthening the power grid through smart hybrid systems;
• Challenges in the new generation of hybrid energy systems;
• New operation and maintenance strategies for power systems;
• Resilience of hybrid electric power systems;
• Modelling, sizing, and design of microgrids;
• Smart grid self-healing;
• Performance analysis of hybrid energy systems;
• Advanced control techniques;
• Electric vehicles and their systems;
• Reliability analysis;
• Power system management;
• Implementation and modern optimization techniques algorithms for microgrids systems.

Manuscripts that are submitted to this special issue will be peer reviewed before publication.

Dr. Omar Hazem Mohammed
Dr. Mohammed Kharrich
Dr. Salah Kamel
Guest Editors

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