Efficient Operation of Smart Grids for Sustainability, Scalability and Security
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2021) | Viewed by 10122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power system operation and control; power system economics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite submissions to a Special Issue of Sustainability entitled “Efficient Operation of Smart Grids for Sustainability, Scalability and Security”.
Energy systems are undergoing radical changes as part of their modernization process worldwide. Τhe deep penetration of renewable energy resources at both distribution and transmission level has led academics, utilities and policy makers to rethink how power systems can be planned and operated. Distribution systems can no longer be considered as static demand: instead, transmission systems are increasingly interacting with active distribution networks with controllable distributed energy resources that can modulate their power to match system-wide needs whilst respecting local constraints.
These changes are enabling and driving the development of Smart Grids, with the objectives of achieving secure, sustainable, and scalable architectures across heterogeneous geographies. By focusing on well-defined frameworks and procedures for those goals, operating costs can be reduced without diminishing the drive towards reduced carbon intensity at acceptable levels of risk.
To this end, there are several trends that distinguish future operations as they compare to legacy practices. Decentralised approaches are now commonplace at all timescales, from primary control through to capacity markets bidding several years ahead. Retiring thermal plants and increased renewable resources have led to a rapid elevation in the value of flexibility in energy systems. The proliferation of market-based approaches and powerful machine learning techniques are expected to maximise the potential of customer flexibility to provide services, be it from the management of electric vehicles, scheduling of thermostatic loads or utilisation of battery energy storage systems.
This Special Issue focuses on frameworks, procedures and approaches that help in the proactive and cost-efficient management of energy resources in an increasing complex grid. The whole energy system should be considered, leveraging full controllability of smart technologies and possible interactions with other energy vectors.
The following topics are guidelines to the topics that could be addressed:
- Distributed power system operation
- Transmission-distribution system (TSO/DSO) coordination
- Distributed energy resources integration
- Electricity market design
- Machine learning and AI approaches for power system operations
Dr. Dimitra Apostolopoulou
Dr. Matthew Deakin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed energy systems
- distributed storage
- electric vehicles
- renewable energy
- microgrids
- electricity markets
- peer-to-peer market
- energy hubs
- fractal grids
- TSO/DSO
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