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SESSION P-28: Energy Control with Applications
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SESSION P-26: Intelligent Control
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SESSION V-07: Artificial Intelligence
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SESSION V-14: Smart System Applications
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SESSION P-02: Artificial Intelligence with Applications
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SESSION P-16: Forecasting Tools
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SESSION P-44: Special Session on"Artificial Intelligence Trends for Healthcare Optimization: Metaheuristics, Machine Learning and IoT"
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SESSION P-46: Special Session on"Applied AI for Emerging Autonomous Systems: Innovations and Challenges"
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SESSION P-45: Optimal Control (Part 2)
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SESSION V-05: Advanced Control Applications
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“Optimization and control for the planning and management of energy communities and smart grids”
Prof. Michela Robba
University of Genova, Italy
Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas, USA Room: Ballroom
Abstract
The green and digital transitions at the EU level are now gaining interest all over the world and require an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach in the fields of green technologies for energy production, storage and distribution, transversal needs (economics, regulation, environment), and smart systems like data management and security, machine learning, automation, simulation, and optimization.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy scenarios have been extensively changed due to the diffusion of distributed generation systems, renewables, prosumers and in general different actors in the energy market. New Energy Management Systems (EMSs) based on simulation and optimization models are necessary to manage local prosumers (and to integrate them in the energy market and the electrical grid) and to face difficulties due to the presence of intermittent and distributed renewable energy resources and loads.
The talk will discuss the role of optimization, control and smart systems in general for the management of power and energy systems.
Attention is first devoted to Energy Communities (ECs), which are gaining momentum across Europe as a key instrument for advancing the clean energy transition. Specifically, after a definition of EC, centralized and decentralized approaches will be presented for the optimal management of single and multiple ECs in order to maximize incentives and coordinate different participants.
Then, it will be discussed how ECs can be integrated in sustainable energy districts andsmart city networks such as smart grids and transportation. Specifically, recent approaches for the optimal management of polygeneration microgrids and interconnected energy networks will be presented.
The effectiveness of the presented approacheswill be shown through several examples, real applications and pilot facilities.
Biography of Prof. Michela Robba
Prof. Michela Robba is Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Genoa. Her research focuses on optimization and control of smart grids, electric vehicles, renewable energy, and natural resource management. She is President of the Liguria Region Energy Consortium and serves on the scientific board of the Italian Energy Technological Cluster. She is Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and Associate Editor for several top journals. Active in the IFAC community, she chairs the Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems. She teaches multiple energy and systems-related courses and has authored over 150 scientific publications. Her work is widely cited and available on: