Energy Management Systems: Challenges, Techniques and Opportunities: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 June 2025 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building automation and control systems; building energy management systems; energy management; demand-side management; smart metering; smart grid; microgrid; microcontrollers; event-based control; prosumer
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Interests: electrical apparatus; electromechatronics; electrotechnology; automation of measurement processes; software engineering; computer-aided design; modeling and computer simulation; building automation and control systems; building energy management systems; energy management; demand-side management; smart metering; smart grid; microgrid; event-based control; prosumer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the growing demand for energy and the growing number of distributed energy sources, the modern power grid is constantly changing. This is particularly true at the distribution level, where new structures such as microgrids, virtual power plants, and energy clusters appear. Moreover, an increasing number of existing energy consumers are turning into local prosumers. Renewable energy sources and storage systems are attached to the power grid as well, often constituting the infrastructure of industrial plants, buildings, and houses.
Therefore, along with the technological development and modernization of electric power grids, new systems and tools enabling the effective management of energy and power flows in such grids and facilities are being implemented. This Special Issue focuses on issues related to the development of modern energy management systems (EMSs) and platforms at different levels of contemporary energy systems and smart power grids. It aims to present original research and studies related to the development of technical frameworks, technologies and methods of energy and demand management in distribution networks, microgrids, virtual power plants, prosumer installations and buildings equipped with renewable energy sources (RESs), storage systems, heat pumps, etc. Moreover, innovative management approaches based on machine learning (ML) and reinforced learning (RL) are considered in this Special Issue.
All kinds of manuscripts presenting research, case studies, and state-of-the-art reviews can be submitted to this Special Issue; the scope of this Special Issue covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:
- Energy management systems;
- Effective demand-side management and response;
- Flexibility of power supply and demand response;
- Interactivity in power grids;
- Technologies and solutions in microgrids and virtual power plants;
- Innovative transactive energy systems;
- Data communication networks for energy management;
- The integration of renewable energy sources and storages;
- Distributed generation with smart control and monitoring functions;
- Microgrids with buildings integrated;
- Energy management in buildings and homes;
- Energy efficiency in buildings;
- Renewable energy technologies in buildings;
- Electric vehicles in smart grids;
- Consumer and prosumer activization.
Dr. Andrzej Ożadowicz
Prof. Dr. Piotr Borkowski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy management
- demand-side management
- demand-side response
- energy flexibility
- energy efficiency
- prosumers
- microgrids
- virtual plants
- transactive energy
- internet of energy
- renewable energy sources
- energy storage
- distributed generation
- building energy management systems
- machine learning
- reinforcement learning
- vehicle-to-grid
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