The fast development and integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) are changing the management and operation of power systems. Currently, more coordination between the owner of the resource, resource operator, and system operator is needed to ensure the required quality of service. The emergence of prosumers and aggregators, such as virtual power plants, fleet operators, or microgrids, introduced a new level of management in power systems. Additionally, new regulation frameworks are incentivizing the creation of energy communities, federated power plants, collective self-consumption, local markets and groups for balancing reserve. This new paradigm imposes the use of new methodologies in long term and operational planning, and real-time operation, allowing better management of the existing resources and more coordination between actors.\u00a0This Special Issue will focus on algorithms, models, methods, technologies, and applications that foster improvements in the management of DERs, taking into consideration better coordination with actors and different business models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, DER optimization, peer-to-peer trading, energy business models, actor coordination, microgrids, energy communities, federated power plants, virtual power plants, fleet operators, system operation, flexible management, demand response, ICT infrastructures, and the use of distributed ledger (e.g. blockchain) in energy services and trading mechanisms.
\nKeywords: distributed energy resources;\u00a0microgrids;\u00a0energy communities;\u00a0virtual power plants;\u00a0federated power plants;\u00a0distribution system;\u00a0energy Markets;\u00a0electricity markets;\u00a0energy Management System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","topic":[704,718,628,576,446,625,554,669,523,465,676,696,615,731,716,589,567,563,734,481,604,541,497,498,565,240],"country":[55],"nsj_language":[57],"class_list":["post-1716","call_for_papers","type-call_for_papers","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-business-models","topic-clean-energy","topic-clean-technologies","topic-data-management","topic-digital-technologies","topic-dynamic-models","topic-electrical-engineering","topic-enabling-technologies","topic-green-infrastructures","topic-ict","topic-infrastructures","topic-innovative-applications","topic-innovative-technologies","topic-local-communities","topic-management","topic-management-engineering","topic-methodology","topic-modeling","topic-power-systems","topic-process-management","topic-process-modeling-and-simulation","topic-renewable-resources","topic-service-innovation","topic-services","topic-smart-grids","topic-sustainable-energy","country-switzerland","nsj_language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n