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    • Artificial intelligence for microgrids design, control, and maintenance: A comprehensive review and prospects 

      Hadi, Mojtaba; Elbouchikhi, Elhoussin; Zhou, Zhibin; Saim, Abdelhakim; Shafie Khah, Miadreza; Siano, Pierluigi; Rahbarimagham, Hesam; Martí Colom, Pau (Elsevier, 2025-07-01)
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      The rising use of renewable energy sources in today’s landscape underscores the growing significance of microgrids. As the deployment of microgrids continues to grow, there is a pressing need to develop advanced control ...
    • A review of worldwide strategies for promoting high-temperature heat pumps 

      Adamo, Angela; Martín Cañadas, María Elena; Hoz Casas, Jordi de la; Rubio Mínguez, Joan (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2025-01-16)
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      This paper provides a comprehensive overview of policies and incentives aimed at promoting high-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) globally. It examines the various strategies employed by different countries to encourage the ...
    • Editorial on the special issue entitled “Regulatory frameworks addressed to promote renewable energy sources and microgrids. Regulatory constraints and implications on conception, design and energy management of microgrids" 

      Hoz Casas, Jordi de la; Martín Cañadas, María Elena; Matas Alcalá, José (2023-06-29)
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      As renewable energy sources and microgrids have developed, the need to use a transversal approach for dealing with issues on the design and energy management of these assets is clear. Al- though renewable energy sources ...
    • Six-sigma approach to developing a microgrid station for research and teaching 

      Doyle de Doile, Gabriel Nasser; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Balestrassi, Pedro Paulo; Zambroni de Souza, Antonio Carlos; Miret Tomàs, Jaume (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-01-30)
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      Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a statistical methodology for improving the quality of processes and their organizational areas worldwide used since the 80’s. However, most of the existing laboratories for obtaining ...
    • Regulatory framework for the promotion of heat pumps in the European Union 

      Adamo, Angela; Martín Gómez, Helena; Hoz Casas, Jordi de la; Rubio Mínguez, Joan; Valero Cayuela, Jordi (Elsevier, 2024-12-01)
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      Heat pumps (HPs) are viewed by the European Union (EU) as a decisive instrument for accomplishing the goals of net zero emissions by 2050. This technology has the potential to help reach this goal by allowing greater ...
    • Improving voltage support in islanded AC microgrids during unbalanced short-circuit faults 

      Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Borrell Sanz, Ángel; Duarte Mejía, Josué Neftali; Camacho Santiago, Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-06)
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      In the event of a short-circuit fault in an islanded ac microgrid, grid-forming power inverters activate a resistive virtual impedance to protect themselves against over-current, whereas grid-feeding power inverters are ...
    • A novel complex power sharing based on sliding mode control for Islanded AC microgrids 

      Alfaro Aragón, Carlos Arturo; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Borrell Sanz, Ángel; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-06)
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      This article introduces a novel complex sliding-mode control strategy for grid-forming inverters in islanded microgrids. This approach offers an alternative to the traditional hierarchical control strategies that typically ...
    • Negative-sequence virtual circuit breaker in islanded inverter-based microgrids 

      Ghodrati, Mojtaba; Borrell Sanz, Ángel; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Velasco García, Manel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-10)
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      Unbalanced loads in islanded inverter-based microgrids induce voltage and current imbalances, posing significant challenges to the operation of critical equipment and sensitive loads. To address this issue, conventional ...
    • A sliding-mode control in a new reference frame for three-phase UPFR with extended control range 

      Chico Villegas, José Pascual; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Borrell Sanz, Ángel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025-01)
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      This article presents a new switching strategy for a unity power factor rectifier (UPFR) using sliding-mode control (SMC). The traditional SMC in the natural frame suffers from a cross-coupling problem among controllers ...
    • Robust voltage unbalance control with inherent current sharing in grid-connected microgrids 

      Duarte Mejía, Josué Neftalí; Velasco García, Manel; Martí Colom, Pau; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Castilla Fernández, Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-12)
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      Grid-connected ac microgrids (MG) are commonly exposed to voltage quality deterioration due to the presence of voltage imbalance. This article presents a control strategy that enables MG grid-feeding inverters (interfacing ...
    • An analysis of the development of the cogeneration sector in Spain: A comprehensive review of the period 1980–2020 from a regulatory perspective 

      Adamo, Angela; Hoz Casas, Jordi de la; Martín Cañadas, María Elena; Rubio, Joan; Coronas Herrero, Sergio (2024-01-27)
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      Combined Heat and Power (CHP) has been identified by the EU as a powerful resource capable of making substantial contributions to energy savings and reducing GHG emissions. Spain’s effort to promote CHP has been prolific ...
    • Voltage support provided by three-phase three-wire inverters with independent reactive phase-current injection 

      Iñiguez Amigot, José Ignacio; Duarte Mejía, Josué Neftalí; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Castilla Fernández, Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
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      During voltage sags, three-phase three-wire power inverters can provide voltage support with several current injection strategies. In general, good results are ob- tained, except in overvoltage situations when one or more ...