New Horizons: Advanced Grid Integration of Renewable Energy

Dear Colleagues,

Classical power systems have been designed to operate under variable loads with a deterministic scheduled generation. New scenarios with variable and uncertain generation pose important challenges for system operators.

With this Special Issue, we are looking for contributions that increase the available knowledge about the challenges that massive and distributed renewable resources will produce in classic power systems. Topics such as control and dynamic analysis of power electronic converters applied to grid integration of renewable energy are also welcome.

Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:

• Islanding detection in distributed generation;
• Grid operation under uncertainty and variability of wind and solar generation;
• Power quality problems in grids with high levels of renewable sources;
• Contingency analysis and reliability of grids with high levels of renewable energies;
• Protection schemes in grids with high levels of renewable energies;
• Forecasting of wind and solar power generation;
• Fast dispatch of renewable resources;
• Reserve management in scenarios with high penetration of renewable energies;
• Market design and demand response;
• Modelling of renewable resources as dynamic stochastic processes;
• Robust control to cope with stochastic generation;
• Dynamic issues and stability analysis of low inertia systems.

Please be aware that this Special Issue is exclusively open to original works that are not under consideration for publication in any other journal.

Dr. Mario Manana Canteli
Prof. Dr. Federico Milano
Guest Editors

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• distributed generation
• power systems
• power converters
• grid integration
• renewable energies
• wind and solar generation
• low inertia systems
• robust control
• stability analysis
• market design
• demand response
• contingency analysis