Regulatory Frameworks Addressed to Promote Renewable Energy Sources and Microgrids. Regulatory Constraints and Implications on Conception, Design and Energy Management of Microgrids
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 (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 16204
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power quality; microgrids; active filters; sliding mode control; feedback linearization; DC–DC converters; inverters
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Interests: the impact that the regulatory frameworks; development, design, and management of renewable energy systems; microgrids
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Interests: optimal design and management of energy systems; energy policy; energy economics; power quality; microgrids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microgrids are called to be handy tools for the deployment of renewable energy systems, especially on buildings and industry.
Today, most of the distributed energy sources that conform to microgrids are renewable energy sources. In this regard, the influence of the regulatory frameworks of the electricity system of each country, especially those addressed to promote renewable energy sources, has a considerable impact on the conception, design, and energy management of these assets.
Some countries are currently working to guarantee that their consumers may have the right to produce, store, consume, and resell their self-generated electricity to the grid. This fact has forced the introduction of substantial changes in their electricity sector laws. In this regard, electricity storage has been allowed, and new promotion schemes have been enacted to cope with the prosumer reality.
The Special Issue invites original research papers to address the analysis of the impacts that those new regulatory schemes might have on the conception, design, and energy management of microgrids. Further, the authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing the state-of-the-art and the description of their countries’ regulatory schemes (self-consumption, net-metering, and net-sharing schemes or similar). These papers have to provide useful guidelines for understanding what the regulatory restrictions might be and how these regulatory restrictions should be embedded in the design and the energy management of the microgrid. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Self-consumption regulatory frameworks and microgrids;
- Net-metering regulatory frameworks and microgrids;
- Net-sharing regulatory frameworks and microgrids;
- Regulatory framework impact on microgrids;
- Microgrids and energy management optimization embedding regulatory framework constraints;
- Microgrids and sizing optimization embedding regulatory framework constraints;
- Microgrids, energy economics, and regulatory frameworks.
Prof. José Matas
Prof. Jordi de la Hoz
Prof. Helena Martin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microgrids
- regulatory framework
- self-consumption
- net-metering
- net-sharing
- energy management
- sizing