The smart grid (SG) as a research area is advancing dealing with a wider range of topics such as power systems, energy generation and telecommunication. The conventional utility grid is used to operate in a passive mode absorbing energy from the substations and delivering it to the customers....

Future distribution systems will have to deal with an intensive penetration of distributed energy resources ensuring reliable and secure operation according to the smart grid paradigm. SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is an essential infrastructure for this evolution. This paper...

In the smart grid environment, the flexible and diverse distributed generation (DG) and microgrid (MG) are attracting considerable attention. There are many key management and optimization issues involved in smart grid. As an important part of smart grid optimizations, the optimal load...

Nowadays power system faces up to various problems and challenges, like e.g. decreasing resources of fossil fuels, ineffective large power plants and transmission lines, as well as increasing demand on energy and quality of energy services and protection of environment. At the same time the...

Energy resource scheduling becomes increasingly important, as the use of distributed resources is intensified and massive gridable vehicle use is envisaged. The present paper proposes a methodology for day-ahead energy resource scheduling for smart grids considering the intensive use of...

European efforts to fight climate change, to improve the security of energy supply, and to drive innovation and competitiveness in the next decade will make distributed generation (DG) develop and grow considerably.

The exploitation of renewable energy resources poses great challenges regarding the manner in which they can be integrated into the modern electrical distribution infrastructure.

The paper presents the operational results of a real life residential microgrid which includes six apartments, a 20kWp photovoltaic plant, a solar based thermal energy plant, a geothermal heat pump, a thermal energy storage, in the form of a 1300l water tank and two 5.8kWh batteries supplying,...