Special Issues

Emerging Technologies for Future Smart Grids

Submission Deadline: 01 May 2025 View: 320 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Name: Nicu BIZON
Affiliation: The National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: nicubizon@yahoo.com
Research Interests: power electronics; renewable energy; fuel cell; hybrid power systems; control; optimization

Name: Bhargav Appasani
Affiliation: School of Electronics Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
E-mail:  bhargav.appasanifet@kiit.ac.in
Research Interests:  smart grid communication networks, ocean wave energy control, second generation current conveyors, terahertz metamaterial absorbers, optimization techniques, artificial intelligence

Summary

This is a special issue based on the 16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (https://ecai.ro/). Prof. Nicu is the conference chair and the selected outstanding papers will be recommended to this special issue.

 

This Special Issue addresses the state-of-the-art research related to emerging technologies in the smart grid. With the increased proliferation of renewable energy resources, and the devices in grid becoming capable to exchanging both power and data, the complexity of the grid has increased enormously. The smart grid is itself an evolved version of the power grid, with enhanced monitoring and control capabilities to meet the complex data and energy requirements of various devices. Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Edge Computing, Quantum computing, Digital twins, Blockchain, Bigdata, etc., are poised to further revolutionize smart grids, unlocking unprecedented capabilities and efficiencies.

 

These technologies are still in nascent stages and thus, this special issue aims to highlight these emerging technologies, with original research and review papers on the following topics related to emerging technologies in smarts grids.

  

Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence for smart grid applications

Machine learning and deep learning for smart grids

AI for energy management in smart grid

AI for electric vehicles charging behaviour prediction

Predictive maintenance using AI

Blockchain for decentralised applications in smart grid

Blockchain for energy management in smart grid

Edge computing for smart grid

Bigdata analytics for smart grid

Quantum computing for smart grid optimization

Quantum encryption for enhaced cybersecurity in smart grids.

Quantum machine learning for smart grid

Quantum computing for efficient energy management

Real-time digital twins for effective situational awareness in smart grids

Digital twins for optimal grid planning.

Digital twins for real-time energy management.

Digital twins for fault diagnosis.

Generative AI for large synthetic data creation

Generative AI for enhanced cybersecurity in smart grids.

Generative AI for anomaly detection in smart grid.

Digital twins for smart grid equipment: metering infrastructure, and phasor measurement units.

Improved smart grid control.


Keywords

Artificial intelligence for smart grids
Blockchain for smart grids
Edge computing for smart grids
Quantum computing for smart grid
Quantum machine learning for smart grid
Quantum encryption algorithms for smart grid
Digital twins for smart grid networks
Digital twins for micro grids
Advanced metering infrastructure
Phasor measurement units
Generative AIin smart grid
Energy management
Optimal power flow
Load frequency control
Synthesizing data for low frequency events

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Integrated Equipment with Functions of Current Flow Control and Fault Isolation for Multiterminal DC Grids

    Shuo Zhang, Guibin Zou
    Energy Engineering, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.057452
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Emerging Technologies for Future Smart Grids)
    Abstract The multi-terminal direct current (DC) grid has extinctive superiorities over the traditional alternating current system in integrating large-scale renewable energy. Both the DC circuit breaker (DCCB) and the current flow controller (CFC) are demanded to ensure the multiterminal DC grid to operates reliably and flexibly. However, since the CFC and the DCCB are all based on fully controlled semiconductor switches (e.g., insulated gate bipolar transistor, integrated gate commutated thyristor, etc.), their separation configuration in the multiterminal DC grid will lead to unaffordable implementation costs and conduction power losses. To solve these problems, integrated equipment with… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Improved Strategy of Grid-Forming Virtual Synchronous Generator Based on Transient Damping

    Lei Zhang, Rongliang Shi, Junhui Li, Yannan Yu, Yu Zhang
    Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.11, pp. 3181-3197, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.054485
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Emerging Technologies for Future Smart Grids)
    Abstract The grid-forming virtual synchronous generator (GFVSG) not only employs a first-order low-pass filter for virtual inertia control but also introduces grid-connected active power (GCAP) dynamic oscillation issues, akin to those observed in traditional synchronous generators. In response to this, an improved strategy for lead-lag filter based GFVSG (LLF-GFVSG) is presented in this article. Firstly, the grid-connected circuit structure and control principle of typical GFVSG are described, and a closed-loop small-signal model for GCAP in GFVSG is established. The causes of GCAP dynamic oscillation of GFVSG under the disturbances of active power command as well as More >

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