Special Issue "Wind and Wave Energy Potential"

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Morteza Nazari-Heris
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Department of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA
Interests: hydropower; demand-side management; hydroelectric power stations; economic dispatch; combined heat and power; energy trading
Dr. Somayeh Asadi
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Guest Editor
Department of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA
Interests: hydropower; sustainable energy; building energy performance; critical infrastructures; transactive energy; food–water–energy nexus; smart grids
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Prof. Dr. Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Concerning the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of wind power as a clean fuel source and the growing rate of the energy systems demand, the studies on wind energy have attracted attention from researchers from all around the world. The International Renewable Energy Agency has reported that global installation of the wind power capacity has raised by a factor of almost 75 in the past two decades, which increased from 7.5 GW in 1997 to some 564 GW in 2018, considering both onshore and offshore turbines. On the other hand, the potential of the energy in waves off of coastlines has resulted in technical and operational challenges arising for energy systems. As reported by The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA), it is estimated that United States has a potential of as much as 2.64 trillion KWh power production using waves off coasts, which is almost 64% of the United States electricity generation in 2019. The proposed research topic of the current Special Issue concentrates on the potential of wind and wave energy in future energy grids, including, but not limited to, the global potential of wind power, physical and technological limits of wind power, evaluation of global wind power, assessing the global wind energy resources, the rise of modern wind power, optimal allocation of wind turbines in energy grids, the global potential of wave energy, physical and technological limits of wave energy, studying the global wave energy resources, and the allocation of wave generation plants.

Dr. Morteza Nazari-Heris
Dr. Somayeh Asadi
Prof. Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wind power
  • wave energy
  • wind generation potential
  • wave energy potential
  • clean power
  • renewable energy

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Provision of Frequency Stability of an Islanded Microgrid Using a Novel Virtual Inertia Control and a Fractional Order Cascade Controller
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4152; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144152 - 09 Jul 2021
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Nowadays, the renewable energy sources in microgrids (MGs) have high participation to supply the consumer’s demand. In such MGs, the problems such as the system frequency stability, inertia, and damping reduction are threatened. To overcome this challenge, employing the virtual inertia control (VIC) [...] Read more.
Nowadays, the renewable energy sources in microgrids (MGs) have high participation to supply the consumer’s demand. In such MGs, the problems such as the system frequency stability, inertia, and damping reduction are threatened. To overcome this challenge, employing the virtual inertia control (VIC) concept in the MG structure could be considered as a viable solution to improve the system frequency response. Hence, this work proposes a novel modeling for VIC in an islanded MG that provides simultaneous emulation of the primary frequency control, virtual inertia, and damping. To show the efficiency of the proposed technique, a comparison is made between the dynamic performance of the proposed VIC and conventional VIC under different scenarios. The results indicate that the proposed VIC presents superior frequency performance in comparison with conventional VIC. In addition to VIC modeling, a new cascade controller based on three-degrees of freedom and fractional-order controllers (FOCs) is proposed as an MG secondary controller. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is compared to tilt-integral-derivative and FO proportional-integral-derivative controllers. The Squirrel search algorithm is utilized to obtain the optimal coefficients of the controllers. The results demonstrate that the proposed controller improves the MG frequency performance over other controllers. Eventually, the sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the robustness of the proposed controller in the face of the variations of the parameters. Full article
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