Power Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Systems (SI-IREC2020)

Overview:

Adding renewable energy sources to the power grid is challenging in many countries. Delivering energy from distributed variable sources to consumers, and maintaining the stability and reliability of electrical systems requires further developments and studies. This is specially challenging for photovoltaic systems due to the inherent distributed characteristics of this source, and the quick variability in the presence of clouds. Therefore, the frequency of the power grid changes faster in case of any disturbance. The zero inertia generators of photovoltaic systems make it necessary to reduce the overall inertia of the system, which would force existing conventional generators to provide torque and inertia when trying to overcome any contingency event. These instability problems should be compensated with new ideas from Smart Grid.

Topics:

This special section will focus on all aspects related to the integration of photovoltaic and other renewable energy systems into existing electricity networks. The topics of interest are:

• Smart Grids
• Renewable Energy
• Stability of Power Systems
• Distributed energy resources
• Integration of Energy Storage with the Power Grid
• Virtual power plants
• Grid Frequency control

Submission Guidelines:

The guest editors will screen papers based on presentations at IREC’20 in a special session dedicated to this Special Section. These selection will be based on the alignment with the journal objectives, the reviewers comments, the response to questions and the potential for improvement. Final selection of papers invited for journal submission will be done at the end of the conference and authors will be invited soon after the conference closes.

Selected authors will be invited to submit significantly extended and revised versions, with more than 30% new content and new title, updated references, discussion, and with comments received during the IREC19 presentation included, using the CAEE web submission tool at

evise.com/profile/#/COMPELECENG/login.

Articles must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be peer- reviewed and accepted based on quality, originality, novelty, and relevance to the theme of the special section. Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, available at

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/authorinstructions.

For additional questions please contact the guest editors.

Schedule:

• Call for papers published: November 2019

• Papers presented at IREC2020 screened by guest editors: 29 March 2020

• Authors invited to submit to CAEE: 20 April 2020 through 31 May 2020

• Notification of authors after the first round of reviews: 1 October 2020

• Communication to selected authors: 30 November 2020

• Publication: February 2021

Guest Editors:

Prof. Ahmad Harb (Managing Guest Editor)

German Jordanian University

Amman – Jordan 11180

Tel: +962 4294244

Email: aharb48@gmail.com

Prof. Fernando Tadeo

Universidad de Valladolid

47005 Valladolid, Spain

Tlf: +34 983 184859

Email: Fernando.Tadeo@uva.es

Guest Editors’ short bios:

Ahmad Harb receive the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, in 1996, in Electrical Engineering. He was the dean of School of Natural Resources Engineering at German Jordanian University (2011-2013). Currently, he is a Professor of Energy Systems at Energy Engineering Department, German Jordanian University. He is an IEEE senior member, and is a founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Applications, (IJMNTA), USA. He has published more than 80 journal articles and conference proceedings. His research interests include power and energy system analysis and control, renewable energy systems, Integration impacts of Renewable Energy with Power Grid, modern nonlinear theory (bifurcation & chaos), linear systems, power system planning, and power electronics.