Innovative Solutions for Integration of Distributed Energy Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 2736
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed energy resources integration; transactive energy; local energy markets design; peer-to-peer trading; microgrid energy management; market clearing mechanisms; distributed optimisation; and energy pricing mechanisms
Interests: power system protection and control; microgrids; distributed energy resources
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Interests: electric distribution systems power; microgrids; smart-grid-distributed energy resources
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) and renewable energy resources in electrical grids is significantly increasing throughout the world. Influenced by the increasing penetration of “behind-the-meter” DERs, power systems are experiencing a paradigm shift from a centralized structure to a decentralized one. DERs encompass a range of consumer level technologies used by households and businesses, such as inverter connected solar PV, electrical energy storage (EES) systems, energy management systems, and electric vehicles (EVs). An increasing number of customers in electricity markets are seeking to mitigate rising electricity prices and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by deploying their own on-site renewable generation and storage.
However, the high penetration level of DERs raises technical, commercial, and regulatory challenges, since the grid infrastructure is designed to deliver large-scale centralized generation to consumers rather than to integrate millions of consumer-owned generators. These changes will require the development of innovative approaches and technology solutions to ensure the efficient integration and coordination of DER. Efficient DER integration is expected to increase the value of local management of these resources and provides DER owners with the opportunity to maximize the return on their investment taking into account the increasing digitalization of the energy sector with more advanced communication technologies. From a grid perspective, coordinated and controlled use of DERs can provide substantial benefits for the stability of the broader network.
This Special Issue, entitled “Innovative Solutions for Integration of Distributed Energy Resources” for the international journal Sustainability, mainly covers original research and studies related to the abovementioned topics including, but not limited to:
- Integration of DER into power systems
- Management of distributed and renewable energy resources
- Demand response integration for DER management
- Use of energy storage systems
- Integrated community-based energy systems
- Local energy systems
- Renewable energy hosting capacity
- Market design for flexibility services
- Local energy trading, market mechanisms and business models
- DER participation in future electricity markets under uncertainty
- Transactive energy for DER management
- Peer to peer and community-based trading in local market
- Aggregation of DER in virtual power plants
- Digitalization in energy systems
- Role of IoT in DER integration
Dr. Mohsen Khorasany
Dr. Reza Razzaghi
Prof. Farhad Shahnia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed energy resources
- energy management
- smart grid
- microgrid
- sustainability
- transactive energy
- flexibility
- market design
- future electricity markets
- energy storage
- digitalization
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