ICIEA 2025 Special Session
SS26: Smart Energy Storage System Management for Renewable Energy Integration
Organized by:
Organizer 1: Zhongbao Wei
Email: weizb@bit.edu.cn
Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Technology
Organizer 2: Cher Ming Tan
Email: cmtan@cgu.edu.tw
Affiliation: Chang Gung University
Organizer 3: Tek Tjing Lie
Email: tek.lie@aut.ac.nz
Affiliation: Auckland University of Technology
Organizer 4: Hany M. Hasanien
Email: hanyhasanien@ieee.org
Affiliation: Ain Shams University
The increased penetration of renewable energy systems (RES) requires higher-level flexibility to address the intermittence and increased uncertainty of these resources. Following this trend, energy storage systems (ESS) are bound to play an important enabling role in future energy systems. Moreover, energy storage is also an essential part of residential storage solutions, which are key drivers of the low-carbon society that seeks resilience in the face of climate change effects. The fast growth of commercial energy storage uses, most recently coupled with large RES projects, and the proliferation of high-density batteries over the past few years are clear indicators that ESS management in scope of optimal and maximum RES integration is paramount.
This vision motivates the in-depth investigation of several key technologies. First, the design and control of high-efficiency power electronics lays the foundation of ESS for RES integration. Moreover, the design and management of ESS in RES-rich grids are critical to the safety and longevity of the decarbonization strategies in the space and the security and reliability of the systems themselves. This endeavor can be further promoted by incorporating the emerging developments in data science and artificial intelligence, which however have been less explored in the development for ESS management systems at smaller and larger scales.
Electrical power systems worldwide are experiencing a shift of their energy portfolios from large centralized units of rotating generators powered by fossil fuels and hydropower, to distributed resources decoupled from the grid frequency thanks to power electronics. The decoupling of the energy source from the grid dynamics introduces several concerns of security, stability and power quality. To this end, several storage technologies have been proposed in the last 10 years and their proliferation seems closely intertwined with the future of renewables. The proposed special session cover topics of energy storage technologies and topologies, power electronics developments, and smart management systems for storage control aiming in the broad, efficient and reliable integration of renewable energy resources. Therefore, the proposed topics are within the scope of this conference.
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