Dear Colleagues,

Modern power systems are facing increased challenges such as increased energy demand, environmental concerns, etc., which cannot be met by the utility grid alone. Building microgrid networks can meet these challenges to some extent, which employs renewable energy sources which are eco-friendly to reduce the environmental concerns. Smart and energy-efficient buildings, which is a recent trend in building industry minimizes energy consumption. The Energy Management System (EMS) in a building is designed to improve environment within the building to ensure customers' comfort.

Finally, the words “sustainable”, “building”, “Microgrid”, “energy management”, and “optimization” (forming the SI title) offer concepts that need to be combined to achieve a better environment for future society.

In this frame, this Special Issue aims to recommend a collection of worthy studies that combine the concepts dealing with:

• advance energy management strategy for smart building with integration Solar cells
• Application of model predictive control, intelligent control for energy management system
• methodologies concerning the modeling of smart building;
• optimization techniques for energy management system
• numerical/experimental studies addressing the investigation of energy management strategy for smart building with integration of solar cell and electric vehicle

Thank you for your contributions.

Dr. Amin Hajizadeh
Dr. Mohsen Soltani
Guest Editors

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• energy management strategy
• smart building
• solar cell
• electric vehicle
• control