Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Energy
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1408
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grid Resilience; renewable integration; hydropower; power system modeling; risk evaluation
Interests: control; power electronics; electric drives; advanced control techniques applied to renewable energy systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the world is stepping into the decarbonized future, the biggest transition is expected to come to the electrical grid. This transition is being enabled and driven by all different types of renewable energy sources (RESs) such as hydropower, solar and wind energy. To have the future power grid operate only with RESs, the renewable build out would need to be well planned in order to provide sufficient flexibility to accommodate the fluctuations on the demand side. Each of these different types of renewable energy generation technologies have their own challenges such as the intermittency of solar and wind resources and reliance on the consistent availability of water resource for hydropower, which would change as the climate changes. To that end, any capacity expansion planning for the future decarbonized grid would need to account for these challenges and would need to come up with innovative solutions (such as different types of energy storage like battery storage, pumped storage hydropower, etc.) to keep the power grid reliable and resilient. However, as the grid is evolving, so are the energy markets (e.g., energy imbalance markets, etc.), and there are new mechanisms being discussed to incentivize RESs (e.g., carbon tax, etc.) leading to new opportunities for these generation sources.
This Special Issue will address these challenges and opportunities for RESs and for all the supporting technologies that would enable renewable energy integration to the power grid. This Special Issue will focus on and include methods, techniques and studies that will investigate the role of RESs and energy storage in the reliable and resilient operations of the future decarbonized power grid. This issue will also include different challenges faced by different RESs and the needs arising from these challenges as we move towards fast paced but sustainable growth of the future decarbonized power grid.
Dr. Vishvas Chalishazar
Prof. Dr. Ted K. A. Brekken
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy sources
- photovoltaics
- wind energy
- hydropower
- energy storage
- electrical grid
- decarbonization
- distributed energy resources
- capacity expansion planning
- grid resilience
- grid reliability
