Decentralized Energy Generation and Smart Energy Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 749
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy management systems; supercapacitors; DC–DC power convertors; diesel–electric generators; distributed power generation; dynamic power response; electric vehicles; hybrid electric vehicles; hybrid power systems; lithium batteries; photovoltaic power systems; power control; power generation control; power grids; renewable energy sources; resonant power convertors; wind turbines; supercapacitors ageing characterization; battery management systems; battery-powered vehicles
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Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to share the great success of our Special Issue “Decentralized Energy Generation and Smart Energy Management”.
The performances of the distributed power generation integrating renewable energies (RE), hydrogen production and storage, hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in HEVs (PHEVs), and pure electric vehicles (PEVs), are often affected due to the intermittencies of renewable energy sources and dynamic driving cycles. Electric power fluctuations from the RE and the load’s demand negatively affects the life span of energy storage systems (batteries, ultracapacitors, electrolyzers with fuel cells), which reduce the decentralized energy generation (DEG) systems’ performance and leads to Smart Energy Management (SEM) needs. DEG systems that include energy storage systems with SEM provide a solution to these problems. However, to avoid excessive costs, appropriate sizing of an energy storage system is needed to meet the system performance requirements of a given DEG; this can be achieved through the optimization of energy storage system design and usage. Moreover, based on the nature of energy sources and the voltage levels for various applications, it is often necessary to provide an interface using power electronics converters for impedance matching between the sources and the loads. These converters provide more flexibility in electric energy management between subsystems, but their topologies and control present crucial challenges to improving energy quality while ensuring good efficiency. This Special Issue focuses on recent developments and new trends of the distributed power generation-based renewables energies. Papers may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Micro-grid based rural electrification;
- Green hydrogen production from renewables energies;
- Energy production and/or load demand forecasting;
- Smart energy management;
- Power fluctuation mitigating;
- Energy storage cost minimizing;
- Power electronics converter topologies;
- Innovative power electronics control techniques;
- Photovoltaic systems, tidal turbines, wind turbines, supercapacitors, batteries, fuel cell systems, and micro-hydroelectric power plant applications.
We also welcome papers that use other innovative techniques to address this issue.
Prof. Dr. Mamadou Baïlo Camara
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- decentralized energy generation
- smart energy management
- rural electrification
- micro-grid
- renewable energies
- energy storage
- power control
- power electronics converters
- electrolyzer
- hydrogen production
- hydroelectric power plant
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