Smart Grids and Flexible Energy Systems 2023
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 (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 3368
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Interests: smart grids; flexible energy systems; microgrids; protection and control of electricity; market concepts for smart grids; peer-to-peer energy trading
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Dear Colleagues,
Power systems are changing due to global drivers, and in many countries, traditional centralized power plants have been or will be shut down. Simultaneously distributed, renewable generation will be integrated in a large scale and at all voltage levels. Large-scale integration of variable renewable generation increases the variations and peak situations in which electricity network capacity or voltage limits may become an issue. Therefore, in the future, the active and intelligent utilization of all the different flexible energy resource potentials at all voltage levels, for local and system-wide flexibility services and increased resiliency, will be required to maintain total system costs at a reasonable level. In addition, energy storage (e.g., batteries, power-to-X) and integration of different energy networks/vectors (electricity, heat, gas, transport, hydrogen) and their simultaneous optimization from the point of view of both local and whole society will be needed. Future smart and flexible energy systems will also require totally new protection and control solutions, as well as operation and planning principles based on optimal and coordinated utilization of flexible energy resources at different voltage levels. Enabling flexible cost- and energy-efficient solutions, such as hybrid AC–DC systems, advanced forecasts, and cyber-secure ICT technologies, will have a major role in new resilient smart grid technologies and architectures. However, the intelligent and optimized operation and planning of future sustainable power and energy systems is also strongly dependent on their business models, market structures, regulation, and tax and tariff structures, as well as customer knowledge. In order to achieve future-proof, compatible, and optimized solutions for smart and flexible energy systems, the simultaneous development of multiple different aspects and the whole system view is needed.
Prof. Dr. Hannu Laaksonen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resilient smart grid architectures with flexible energy resources
- protection and control solutions for future power systems
- grid-interactive microgrids
- control of energy storage
- optimized operation of smart energy systems
- hybrid AC–DC systems in smart grids
- cyber-secure ICT technologies for smart energy systems
- integration of different energy networks (electricity, heat, gas, transport)
- management of flexible energy resources in local energy communities
- flexibility forecasts in future smart grids
- energy market redesign (local and system-wide energy and flexibility markets)
- regulation and legislation enabling use of different flexibility services
