Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy - Special Issue on Advances in Microgrid for Sustainable Energy Systems
Guest Editors
Dr. Ahmad H. Sabry, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia
Dr. Nasri Sulaiman, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Farah Hani Nordin, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia
Summary and scope
Sustainable energy systems are the future of the world. Advancement in technology and the rising cost of fossil fuels are the main reasons. The need to produce more electricity has tremendously increased, but at the same time, we should also care about the environment. Here comes the role of renewable energy systems, which are environmentally friendly and result in minimum pollution. Advances in microgrids for sustainable energy systems focus on advancing technologies that provide and maintain a stable electricity supply over the short and long- term. The technologies are geared towards delivering the smoothest distribution of energy to be sustained with consistency. It develops technologies for renewable energy and other types that serve communities, institutions, and industries. The rapid advances in microgrids will result in significant improvements in using sustainable energy. In particular, microgrids help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the needs of the community members by providing unobstructed electrical power even during weather disturbances or natural disasters. The main challenge for this exploding demand is to decarbonise the energy infrastructure. But the problem is not only in generating enough sustainable renewable energy but how to distribute it in an elegant manner that responds to the actual demand and optimises its utilisation. This is where the concept of microgrid comes into play.
The microgrid is a localised energy grid that operates both independently and networked with other grids, depending on regulatory decisions, etc. The microgrid can co-exist with traditional large distribution systems and power plants to enable various applications such as electric vehicles, demand response capability, self-consumption of electricity from renewable sources, integration of non-dispatchable generation like wind or solar PV systems, hybrid heat pump operations and decentralised water or waste heat recovery or better heating services. The microgrid is a self-contained system that can operate independently, with the ability to supply its power and allow remote control of demand and supply within the microgrid. Sustainable energy systems are renewable energy systems with lower environmental impacts, such as water consumption, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, than nonrenewable energy sources like coal and oil-fired power plants. With growing awareness of global warming and climatic changes, there is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving lifestyles. A microgrid with intelligent, dynamic control opens up sustainable energy access opportunities in remote locations or urban areas where conventional energy infrastructure (such as wire grid or centralised cogeneration) cannot reach or be cost-effective. Many challenges are still present for researchers in this field.
This Special Issue is a broad spectrum finding innovative approaches on microgrids, covering various aspects such as definition, system architecture, design process, energy planning, flexibility and reliability, operation and control, and other vital issues for sustainable energy systems.
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Distributed renewable energy sources and microgrid for sustainable energy management systems
- Sustainable energy management and microgrid
- Environmental analysis and impact mitigation with microgridSustainable technologies for microgrids
- Policy measures and regulatory interventions for microgrids and sustainable energy
- Power and sustainable energy management with microgrid
- Technological advances and microgrid sustainability
- Environmental impacts of sustainable microgrid operations and technologies
- Renewable energy management and sustainable smart grid operation
- Sustainable energy systems and microgrid operations
- Progress in microgrid and sustainable energy management
- Green technologies and sustainable transition in intelligent grids
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at:
https://www.springer.com/journal/40866/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit online via the submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type "SI - Advances in Microgrid for Sustainable Energy Systems".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Submission deadline: 30 July 2023
About the Guest-Editors
Dr. Ahmad H. Sabry was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronics, control and automation, engineering from the University of Technology-Baghdad, Iraq, in 1994 and 2001, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in DC Based PV-Powered Home Energy System from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, control and automation at UPM, Malaysia in 2017. He is the author of more than 35 articles, and more than 5 inventions, and holds one patent. His research interests include Integrated Solar Powered Smart Home System Based on Voltage Matching, DC distribution, industrial robotic systems, wireless energy management systems.
Dr. Nasri Sulaiman received the bachelor’s degree in electronics and computer engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, in 1994, the master’s degree in microelectronics system design from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in adaptive hardware from The University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UPM. He is currently working on a variety of research projects such as “High Performance Hardware Implementation of a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm” which is funded through the Research University Grant Scheme (RUGS) of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), as well as, “Crest Factor Reduction and Digital Pre-distortion Implementation in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Systems, funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). His research interests include evolutionary algorithms, digital signal processing, digital communications, and low power VLSI designs.
Dr. Farah Hani Nordin received the bachelor's (Hons.) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Selangor, Malaysia, in 2000, the M.Sc. degree in control, communication and digital signal processing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from UNITEN in 2010.,She is an Associate Professor and currently holding the position of Deputy Dean (student affairs and external relations) with the College of Engineering, UNITEN, where she has previously served as the Head of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering from 2014 until 2018.,Dr. Nordin is a member of The Institution of Engineers Malaysia and also registered as a Professional Engineer under the Board of Engineers Malaysia.