Recent Advances in Smart Grid and Energy Storage Applications

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The evolution of smart grids and energy storage technologies is transforming the energy sector, addressing grid stability, energy efficiency, and renewable energy integration challenges. Recent advances enable enhanced real-time grid monitoring, predictive analytics, and demand–response strategies. Innovations in energy storage systems (ESSs), including batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen-based solutions, are revolutionizing energy management and dispatch. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced power electronics further strengthens smart grid operations, improving reliability, flexibility, and resilience. Additionally, smart grids have a vital role in smart cities, enabling sustainable urban development through intelligent energy distribution, smart metering, and energy-efficient strategies. Emerging technologies like non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) play a key role in energy disaggregation, enhancing energy efficiency and enabling personalized energy consumption insights for residential and industrial applications. This Topic explores the latest research, technological breakthroughs, and case studies on smart grids, NILM, energy storage, and their integration into smart city infrastructures. This discussion highlights challenges, emerging trends, and innovations shaping the future of energy management and urban sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Alfredo Alcayde
Prof. Dr. John Alexander Taborda-Giraldo
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Electronics electronics	2.6	5.3	2012	16.4 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Energies energies	3.0	6.2	2008	16.8 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Processes processes	2.8	5.1	2013	14.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Smart Cities smartcities	7.0	11.2	2018	28.4 Days	CHF 2000	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	6.8	2009	19.7 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Electricity electricity	-	4.8	2020	27.9 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Inventions inventions	2.1	4.8	2016	18.5 Days	CHF 1800	Submit

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Efficiency Improvement in a Crude Oil Heating Furnace Based on Linear Regulation Control Strategies

by Francisco Jacas-Portuondo, Leonardo Peña-Pupo, Miguel R. Forgas-Brioso, Electo E. Silva-Lora, John A. Taborda-Giraldo and José R. Nuñez-Alvarez

Energies 2025, 18(7), 1578; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18071578 - 21 Mar 2025

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This paper presents research results to improve energy efficiency in one of the crude oil heating furnaces at the “Hermanos Díaz” refinery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. It analyzes the main process’s variables and disturbances, and the multivariate dynamic behavior of the F-101 [...] Read more.

This paper presents research results to improve energy efficiency in one of the crude oil heating furnaces at the “Hermanos Díaz” refinery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. It analyzes the main process’s variables and disturbances, and the multivariate dynamic behavior of the F-101 furnace temperature is characterized to evaluate different control strategies. In addition, the design of a linear regulation control law was implemented as a way to solve the limitations of the existing control of the furnace, to control the plant for the first time with a multivariable approach, demonstrating superior performance by guaranteeing decoupling between the variables, decreasing the overruns by 6%, and increasing the response speed of the system by more than 5 min. The comparison with results obtained with other control strategies allowed us to determine the better performance of the furnace by increasing its energy efficiency, evidencing the economic and environmental impact and obtaining as benefits a better dynamic behavior by reducing fuel oil consumption by 5%, equivalent to 0.74 m³/day, which reduces the operating costs of the plant, the temperature of the gasses by 2%, emissions of CO₂ pollutant gas to the environment by between 3 and 5%, and increasing energy efficiency by 1.5%. Full article

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