Battery Energy Storage for Micro-Grid Optimal Management
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 November 2020) | Viewed by 304
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Interests: hybrid renewable energy systems and multi energy systems; hydrogen utilisation and production; biomass sustainable energy conversion; design of efficient and sustainable electric vehicles; clean combustion of gaseous fuels
Interests: hybrid renewable energy systems and multi energy systems; hydrogen utilisation and production; biomass sustainable energy conversion; design of efficient and sustainable electric vehicles; clean combustion of gaseous fuels
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions to a Special Issue of the journal Energies on the topic of battery energy storage for micro-grid optimal management.
In the last years, with the considerable increase of renewable source share within the national primary energy portfolios, while foreseeing for an even greater shares in the forthcoming years, the availability of reliable, cheap, durable and efficient energy storage solutions will be of utmost importance. In fact, as the penetration of renewable sources will be increased, high voltage AC transmission lines will be mostly replaced by local DC microgrids, that have to be optimized in order to maximize self-consumption. Batteries would serve in such a scenario to decouple the local energy request from energy supply. However, as battery systems affect microgrid complexity and costs considerably, and also due to the intrinsic local characteristics of the energy production from renewable sources, design and control solutions are far from trivial, also due to non-scalability effects, saturation effects, non-linearities, etc.
These research and technology challenges may be addressed only with a multidisciplinary take; very diverse skills are required to overcome the mentioned issues, focusing not only on battery systems themselves, but also on the design of the microgrid system to optimize its operation, to maximize self-consumption, while increasing battery durability. Also, the analysis of costs, especially studying the projection over the next years, as well as LCA studies are needed to get better understanding about the implications between sustainability and system design decisions, taking into account the different materials used, recyclability, etc. Moreover, the analysis of case studies, considering different renewable energy source mixes and energy consumption profiles, may be instrumental to better address the problem of the generalization of the design process.
This Special Issue would like to encourage original contributions regarding recent developments and ideas, as proposed in the lines above, but also proposing other studies within the same technical challenges. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: battery system technologies, microgrid design and control, renewable source integration, multi-energy systems, reliability, operation and maintenance, and smart-grid integration.
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Mulone
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Bartolucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Battery Energy Storage Systems
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Microgrid systems
- Smart control of Microgrid systems
- Smart grids
- Electrochemical Batteries
- Grid connected energy systems
- Off-grid stationary energy systems
- Renewable Energy Conversion at high penetration
