Influence of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) on Power Supply Network

Dear Colleagues,

The development of distributed energy resources, including renewable energy sources and energy storage (DER), is a desirable and inevitable process. Their presence already brings economic and social benefits, and soon it will be the basis for the development of an innovative knowledge-based economy. For this process not to be unnecessarily slowed down, one should also be aware of the barriers still needing to be faced, including technical barriers. The growing popularity of the use of DER negatively affects the supply network, increasing the level of well-known power quality (PQ) disturbances—i.e., slow and fast voltage changes, voltage fluctuations, voltage asymmetry and distortion, surges, etc. In addition, new, previously unknown electromagnetic disturbances and problems related to the presence of DER appear in the networks.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the current state of knowledge related to, among other things:

• the detection and classification of PQ disturbances;
• DERs immunity and emissivity;
• PQ standards and monitoring;
• solution for the mitigation of PQ problems;
• the control of PQ in active distribution networks;
• the modeling and simulation of power systems with DERs’
• trends and advances in PQ;
•  ….

We are calling for original contributions that cover power-quality consequences related to the broadly understood interaction of distribution networks and DERs.

Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Hanzelka
Prof. Dr. Angelo Baggini
Guest Editors

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• distributed energy resources
• power quality (PQ)
• voltage and current disturbances
• monitoring and standardization
• immunity and emission
• modeling
• PQ mitigation methods