Hybrid Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Control Design of Future Microgrids with Distributed Renewable Energy Sources Integration
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 July 2025 | Viewed by 3923
Special Issue Editors
Interests: model predictive control; robust control and filtering; fuzzy control; distributed control; resilient control; intrusion detection and security control; reinforcement learning; neural network; applications in electric vehicle and power systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: cyber-physical energy systems; robust control and optimization; machine learning; autonomous intelligent robots
Interests: process monitoring; fault detection; fault diagnosis; data mining
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The microgrid has long been seen as one of the most promising solutions to convert distributed renewable energy sources (DRESs) like solar, wind, and battery storage into electrical power due to the capability of providing flexible and controllable means to integrate DRESs with power electronics technologies, which contributes substantially to the word’s sustainable energy development. However, with the increasing penetration level of DRESs, the physical inertia traditionally provided by synchronous generators (SGs) reduces sharply, resulting in significant challenges of future microgrids in system modeling, stability analysis, and control design. Since the system modeling is the prerequisite for stability analysis and control design, precise and computationally efficient models are essentially necessary to be built by incorporating distinct properties of each category of renewable energy sources. Hybrid modeling methods are prospective but are not fully revealed, both for DRESs and their interactions with electrical networks. For the stability analysis, diverse key performance indicators (KPIs), such as robustness, reliability, sensibility, and resiliency, should be focused on, with the particular attention to different system variables (e.g., voltage and frequency), while the investigation on these aspects are not comprehensive. For the control design, the realization of KPIs for microgrids should be studied in the context of DRESs coordinated with the networked topology, while most current studies ignored the potential topology change and the intermittent communications. To better integrate DRESs into future microgrids, this Special Issue encourages researchers to advance the state-of-the-art studies from hybrid modeling, stability analysis, and control design perspectives. The research topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Advanced sustainable energy development
- Hybrid modeling of microgrids
- Stability analysis of hybrid energy systems
- Data-driven monitoring and control for smart grids
- Autonomous power inspection robotics
- Operation and protection of solar PV system
- Integration of new energy in urban design
- Consumer behavior in new energy
- Fault detection and diagnosis of power grid equipment ·
- Condition monitoring and performance evaluation
Dr. Zhijian Hu
Dr. Renjie Ma
Dr. Shumei Zhang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- distributed renewable energy source (DRES)
- microgrid
- smart grid
- wind turbine
- solar photovoltaic
- hybrid modeling
- stability analysis
- control design
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
- Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
- Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
- Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
- External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
- e-Book format: Special Issues with more than 10 articles can be published as dedicated e-books, ensuring wide and rapid dissemination.
Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices can be found here.
