Special Session 2: Next-Generation Low Voltage Microgrids: Integrating Renewables, Energy Storage, and EV Infrastructure

 

Chair: Riccardo Loggia,

Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

 

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, together with the rapid diffusion of electric vehicles and distributed storage technologies, is profoundly transforming low-voltage electrical networks. In this context, low-voltage microgrids represent a key enabling solution to ensure efficiency, reliability, flexibility, and sustainability at the distribution and end-user levels. This Special Session aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present recent advances, methodologies, and real-world applications related to low-voltage microgrids integrating photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage systems (BESSs), and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Particular attention will be devoted to system architectures, control strategies, energy management, power quality, and grid interaction under both grid-connected and islanded operating conditions. The session will address both individual and collective self-consumption scenarios, including energy communities, residential and commercial microgrids, and local energy systems, highlighting regulatory, technological, and operational challenges.

We invite both theoretical and empirical research addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

 

• Design and modeling of low-voltage microgrids

• Integration of photovoltaic generation in low-voltage (LV) networks

• Battery energy storage systems: sizing, control, and lifetime aspects

• EV charging infrastructure and its impact on low-voltage grids

• Energy management and optimization strategies

• Vehicle to Grid (V2G) and Grid to Vehicle (G2V) strategies and applications

• Grid-connected and islanded operation of microgrids

• Energy communities, collective self-consumption, and regulatory frameworks

• Real-time monitoring, control, and digitalization of LV microgrids

• Experimental setups, pilot projects, and field implementations

 

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from operations research, industrial engineering, economics, statistics and policy science are looking forward to sharing your outstanding research outcomes.

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