Special Issue "Sustainable Energy Systems: Emerging Technologies and Practices in Renewable Energy Storage"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Muhammad Khalid
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Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Interests: advanced control; distributed generation; energy storage systems; forecasting; micro grids; optimization techniques; renewable power systems; hydrogen systems; smart grids

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The global transition towards renewable integration in the energy sector comes with unique challenges and opportunities. At present, many renewable technologies impose a power quality and stability threat that concurrently limits their commercialized deployment. The current developmental trend strives to establish renewable integration based on the concept of microgrid-using technologies such as forecasting, power electronics and energy management to ultimately formulate a deregulated and sustainable smart grid. The recent advancement in renewable technologies in combination with the growing need for optimal energy storage utilization consists of many research and knowledge gaps that require meticulous research initiatives and innovation.

In similar terms, the concept of an energy storage system as an energy buffer—that is, to store/supply abundant/deficit power—has proven to be a pivotal methodology for suitable growth in renewable integration. However, appropriate advancements are urgently required in the areas of constructional, conceptual, and power management to obviate contraptions focused on individual energy storage technologies. Accordingly, with the commercialization of electric vehicles, the concept of utilizing vehicular storage devices to enhance the techno-economic significance of multi-energy renewable systems encourages its potentiality for future sustainable power systems.       

This Special Issue provides a unique platform to present state-of-the-art research findings in all fields of renewable energy integration and innovative solutions associated with the development and selection of renewable and energy storage technologies to overcome distinctive technical challenges related to sustainable power establishment. This Special Issue aims to facilitate and promote interdisciplinary researchers to provide multi-faced solutions related to renewable energy and energy storage systems.

Dr. Muhammad Khalid
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Need for renewable energy, challenges, and opportunities
  • Impact of renewable technology on environment and climate change
  • Renewable energy policy
  • Emerging renewable and storage technologies
  • Global practices of commercial and residential renewable integration
  • Renewable energy economics (hydrogen economy, carbon accounting, carbon emission, regionalization and legislation of renewable installation)
  • Renewable process control (solar, wind, biomass, hydro, tidal geothermal, desalination, solar thermal, solar chimney, electrification of natural gas)
  • Electric vehicle (EV) technologies in renewable power system (peak shaving, load following, swappable storage stations)
  • Renewable power electronic converters: topology, structure, and optimization
  • Advancement and development in energy storage technologies that include, but are not limited to: electrochemical storage (e.g., lithium-ion, lead-acid, nickel-cadmium, sodium-sulfur), thermoelectric storages, electromechanical/mechanical storage, electromagnetic storage systems, thermal storage, chemical storage, flow batteries, supercapacitors, hybrid energy storage systems, hydrogen storage and mobility
  • Development and advancement in renewable and storage materials (organic materials, organic electrodes, nanomaterial, nanohybridization, functional nanomaterials, flexible batteries, electrochemical analysis, degradation)
  • Innovations in smart grids and microgrids
  • Renewable flexibility, reliability, and resilience
  • Self-healing renewable grids
  • Optimization, control and forecasting of renewable energy sources
  • Renewable and distributed system planning and operation
  • Output power smoothing of renewables and optimal power dispatch
  • Energy storage efficacy in renewable deployment
  • Load forecasting
  • Demand response and demand side management
  • Machine learning applications in renewable storage systems
  • Energy storage applicability in power quality, grid stability, and renewable flexibility

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PV/Wind-Integrated Low-Inertia System Frequency Control: PSO-Optimized Fractional-Order PI-Based SMES Approach
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7622; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147622 - 07 Jul 2021
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A paradigm shift in power engineering transforms conventional fossil fuel-based power systems gradually into more sustainable and environmentally friendly systems due to more renewable energy source (RES) integration. However, the control structure of high-level RES integrated system becomes complex, and the total system [...] Read more.
A paradigm shift in power engineering transforms conventional fossil fuel-based power systems gradually into more sustainable and environmentally friendly systems due to more renewable energy source (RES) integration. However, the control structure of high-level RES integrated system becomes complex, and the total system inertia is reduced due to the removal of conventional synchronous generators. Thus, such a system poses serious frequency instabilities due to the high rate of change of frequency (RoCoF). To handle this frequency instability issue, this work proposes an optimized fractional-order proportional integral (FOPI) controller-based superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) approach. The proposed FOPI-based SMES technique to support virtual inertia is superior to and more robust than the conventional technique. The FOPI parameters are optimized using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The SMES is modeled and integrated into the optimally designed FOPI to support the virtual inertia of the system. Fluctuating RESs are considered to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Extensive time-domain simulations were carried out in MATLAB Simulink with different load and generation mismatch levels. Systems with different inertia levels were simulated to guarantee the frequency stability of the system with the proposed FOPI-based SMES control technique. Several performance indices, such as overshoot, undershoot, and settling time, were considered in the analysis. Full article
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A Comprehensive Review on Residential Demand Side Management Strategies in Smart Grid Environment
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7170; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137170 - 25 Jun 2021
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The ever increasing demand for electricity and the rapid increase in the number of automatic electrical appliances have posed a critical energy management challenge for both utilities and consumers. Substantial work has been reported on the Home Energy Management System (HEMS) but to [...] Read more.
The ever increasing demand for electricity and the rapid increase in the number of automatic electrical appliances have posed a critical energy management challenge for both utilities and consumers. Substantial work has been reported on the Home Energy Management System (HEMS) but to the best of our knowledge, there is no single review highlighting all recent and past developments on Demand Side Management (DSM) and HEMS altogether. The purpose of each study is to raise user comfort, load scheduling, energy minimization, or economic dispatch problem. Researchers have proposed different soft computing and optimization techniques to address the challenge, but still it seems to be a pressing issue. This paper presents a comprehensive review of research on DSM strategies to identify the challenging perspectives for future study. We have described DSM strategies, their deployment and communication technologies. The application of soft computing techniques such as Fuzzy Logic (FL), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Evolutionary Computation (EC) is discussed to deal with energy consumption minimization and scheduling problems. Different optimization-based DSM approaches are also reviewed. We have also reviewed the practical aspects of DSM implementation for smart energy management. Full article
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