About this Research Topic
In recent years, microgrid techniques integrating new renewable energy sources are widely developed with increasing concerns about environmental pollution, global climate change, and energy shortage. Especially, with the urgent requirements for carbon neutrality and carbon peak, renewable energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaics are considered as the alternative way to achieve low-carbon and green development. Most of these renewable energy sources are integrated into the utilization through microgrids. With the integration of massive renewable energy sources, the natural characteristics of randomness, intermittent, and fluctuation promote the challenges of the mismatch between power supply and demand in microgrids. In order to overcome these challenges, some new technologies such as demand response or management, energy storage, multi-energy resources coordination, optimal planning, and control techniques have been introduced to promote the integration of new energy resources. These require that the planning, dispatching, evaluation, operation, energy management, and controlling methods can adapt to the operation and control of a multi-energy microgrid.
Regarding the uncertainty and complexity of the operation of the microgrid with the integration of massive renewable energy resources, the scientific community needs more in-depth research by scholars from different disciplines and regions. To shed light on pathways towards optimal operation and management of multi-energy microgrids, the journal Frontiers in Energy Research decided to launch this call for advances in basic research and technological development of operation and energy management of microgrids, including techniques of forecasting, planning, evaluation, scheduling or dispatching, optimal energy management, controlling, etc. We aim to provide a platform for global decision-makers, stakeholders, scientists, and engineers to share their outstanding research and exchange their inspiring ideas.
This research topic on ‘Optimal Planning, Operation, and Control for Multi-energy Microgrid’ aims to call for state-of-the-art research works on this promising research area. This research topic will gather high-quality research articles with original contributions to the studies of massive centralized or decentralized integrations of new renewable energy resources to power systems through microgrids. Original research papers, reviews, perspectives, and views & comments are all welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
(1) Optimal operation and control strategies in microgrid
(2) Demand response and energy management in microgrid
(3) Decentralized energy management for microgrid
(4) Electricity market design and trading strategy in microgrid
(5) Data- and AI-based modeling, analysis, and control of microgrid
(6) Forecasting, reliability evaluation, and stability analysis of microgrid
(7) PMU placement and communication techniques for integrating massive microgrids
(8) Combined Cooling Heating and Power technologies in microgrid
(9) Modeling and optimal dispatching of multi-energy microgrid
(10) Integrating technologies of renewable energy sources into microgrids or smart distribution systems
Regarding the uncertainty and complexity of the operation of the microgrid with the integration of massive renewable energy resources, the scientific community needs more in-depth research by scholars from different disciplines and regions. To shed light on pathways towards optimal operation and management of multi-energy microgrids, the journal Frontiers in Energy Research decided to launch this call for advances in basic research and technological development of operation and energy management of microgrids, including techniques of forecasting, planning, evaluation, scheduling or dispatching, optimal energy management, controlling, etc. We aim to provide a platform for global decision-makers, stakeholders, scientists, and engineers to share their outstanding research and exchange their inspiring ideas.
This research topic on ‘Optimal Planning, Operation, and Control for Multi-energy Microgrid’ aims to call for state-of-the-art research works on this promising research area. This research topic will gather high-quality research articles with original contributions to the studies of massive centralized or decentralized integrations of new renewable energy resources to power systems through microgrids. Original research papers, reviews, perspectives, and views & comments are all welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
(1) Optimal operation and control strategies in microgrid
(2) Demand response and energy management in microgrid
(3) Decentralized energy management for microgrid
(4) Electricity market design and trading strategy in microgrid
(5) Data- and AI-based modeling, analysis, and control of microgrid
(6) Forecasting, reliability evaluation, and stability analysis of microgrid
(7) PMU placement and communication techniques for integrating massive microgrids
(8) Combined Cooling Heating and Power technologies in microgrid
(9) Modeling and optimal dispatching of multi-energy microgrid
(10) Integrating technologies of renewable energy sources into microgrids or smart distribution systems
Keywords: multi-energy microgrid, smart microgrid, optimal planning, optimal scheduling/dispatching, coordination optimization, energy management, demand response, reliability evaluation, decentralized control, PMU placement, data-driven control
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
