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Special Sessions 3 (SS3):

Title: Advance in Nanogrids Architectures for Smart Buildings and Energy Community

• Rodolfo Araneo, Dipartimento di Ing. Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, Contact: rodolfo.araneo@uniroma1.it
• Giuseppe La Tona, Institute of Marine Engineering of National Research Council (CNR), Italy, Contact: giuseppe.latona@cnr.it
• Giovanni Petrone (primary contact person), DIEM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione ed Elettrica e Matematica Applicata, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy, Contact: gpetrone@unisa.it

Special session theme:

The development of technologies, devices and design methodologies for green, energy-efficient buildings is currently considered one of the most strategic research areas worldwide. Indeed, in the developed countries the energy consumption of commercial, tertiary and residential buildings is a relevant part of the energy demand. To foster the rational use of the different forms of energy, international and national energy policies introduced the concept of renewable energy communities as new forms of aggregation of final users. The community shares the common renewable energy among users with the objective to increase the social welfare by interfering as little as possible with the users’ comfort and habits. In this new scenario is envisaged that smartgrid architectures, in particular nanogrids, and energy management systems will assume a leading role for energy community, where renewables sources, storage systems and loads work in cooperation to achieve the nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEBs).

This special session is aimed at presenting the latest advances and developments in nanogrids physical configuration, optimization of the individual component systems (i.e. renewable energy sources, storage elements, and power converters), control functions, demand side management and demand response energy dispatch. The choice of the optimal technology for each class of power converters and energy storage systems is also of interest. The target applications are commercial, residential and industrial buildings or clusters of buildings, where the total active power demand can be as high as a few megawatts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Integration and optimization of renewable sources and energy storage systems;
• Nanogrid architectures, stability and robustness;
• Communication, monitoring and safety;
• Control strategies for power sharing;
• Power electronics for nanogrid;
• IoT and sensor networks for nanogrid;
• Electrical and thermal management in NZEBs
• Energy forecast, demand side management and demand response for energy community;
• Hardware in the loop simulation and emulation of nanogrid

Integration of electrical vehicles in nanogrid