Smart Community Energy Management System

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".

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University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: power quality; renewable energy sources control; energy storage management systems; smart grids and electric vehicles

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Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: power electronics in the power system; flexible AC transmission systems; active power filters; energy management systems and electrical machine drives

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Centre of Technology and Systems, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: energy efficiency; smart grids; buildings flexibility and grid interaction; electrical drives; power electronics
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Dear Colleagues,

A Smart Community is an effective energy-saving solution, performing integrated management of distributed renewable energy generation, energy storage systems, demand response, electromobility, and ICT. In this context, the Smart Community Energy Management System (EMS) plays a key role, acting as an aggregator of resources, coordinating them to assure benefits for the whole community. In addition, a more demanding energy control leads to more complex EMS capabilities, from providing ancillary services to the smart grid, up to getting the community to become a nearly Zero-Energy District or a Positive Energy Block.

This Special Issue aims to cover the most recent advances in Energy Management Systems applied to Smart Communities and Smart Buildings. Novel theoretical approaches or practical applications, as well as reviews and surveys of the state-of-the-art are also welcomed. Topics of interest to this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

  • Renewable and storage energy management in a Smart Community;
  • Demand eesponse potentials and benefits in a Smart Community;
  • Control strategies for a Smart Community EMS;
  • nearly Zero-Energy Districts and Positive Energy Blocks and Districts;
  • Smart Communities integration with micro-grid systems or smart grids;
  • Electric and plug-in electric vehicles integration in Smart Communities: vehicle-to-home (V2H), vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to community (V2C), etc.;
  • Smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure for community, building and household applications;
  • ICT for a Smart Community EMS .

Prof. Dr. María Isabel Milanés Montero
Prof. Dr. Fermín Barrero González
Prof. Dr. João Martins
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Quasi-Z Source T-Type Power Converter for PV Based Commercial and Industrial Nanogrids with Active Functions Strategy
by Fermín Barrero-González, Carlos Roncero-Clemente, María Isabel Milanés-Montero, Eva González-Romera, Enrique Romero-Cadaval and Oleksandr Husev
Electronics 2020, 9(8), 1233; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9081233 - 31 Jul 2020
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Since most power electronics used in photovoltaic (PV) inverters at commercial and industrial facilities exhibit behavior as non-linear loads from the grid side, these high-power demand installations are expected to have a major impact on the network’s power quality. In an attempt to [...] Read more.
Since most power electronics used in photovoltaic (PV) inverters at commercial and industrial facilities exhibit behavior as non-linear loads from the grid side, these high-power demand installations are expected to have a major impact on the network’s power quality. In an attempt to facilitate their integration into the distribution grid, this paper presents a comprehensive control strategy for Quasi-Z Source T-Type PV inverters inside a facility, which performs active and reactive power control, and harmonic and imbalance compensation at expenses of the spare inverter power capacity. Unlike other approaches, the one proposed here operates properly under distorted and unbalanced grid voltages. The electrical network structure inside a commercial and industrial facility is considered, analyzing the operation of the proposed strategy on three-phase PV inverters. The power topology used has voltage boosting ability, which eliminates the requirement for both an additional DC-DC converter and/or a step-up transformer commonly used in PV inverter systems. The proposed strategy performance is demonstrated on a 50 kW converter model under a disturbed grid environment and changing load conditions. Full article
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