Control engineering computing, Hierarchical systems, intelligent control, Multi-agent systems, Power engineering computing, AC electricity, DC electricity;agent based control, Electric vehicles, Energy hubs, Heat supply, Hierarchical control system, Hydrogen fuel system, Multiagent systems, Multiple energy carrier control, Multiple energy carriers, Natural gas system, Batteries, Cogeneration, Electric vehicles, Electricity, Multi-agent systems, Natural gas, Optimization, Distributed Power Generation, Energy Management, Energy Storage, Microgrids, Multi-agent systems

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Papadopoulos, P. and Grau Unda, I. (2014) Agent-based control of multiple energy carriers and energy hubs. In: 2014 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), October 12-15, 2014, Instanbul, Turkey.

Distributed power generation, Flow batteries, Energy generation, Energy storage, Microgrid power balancing, Power balancing services, Redox flow batteries, Residential block, Service room, Urban microgrids, Batteries, Energy resources, Generators, Load modeling, Microgrids, Power demand, Batteries, Distributed Power Generation, Energy Management, Energy Storage, Microgrids

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Giwa, B.A. and Hall, D. (2014) Microgrid power balancing with redox flow batteries. In: 2014 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), October 12-15, 2014, Instanbul, Turkey.

Distributed power generation, Power system planning, DER, MG control architectures, Distributed energy resources, Microgrid applications, Planned communities, Cities and towns, Communities, Density estimation robust algorithm, Microgrids, Power system reliability, Reliability, Voltage control, Distributed generation, Microgrid, Planned communities

Moutis, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Brucoli, M., Hung, J. and Wu, Shu-Wei (2014) Planned communities as microgrid applications. In: 2014 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), October 12-15, 2014, Instanbul, Turkey.

EMTP;HVDC power convertors;HVDC power transmission;PI control;offshore installations;power transmission control;power transmission faults;power transmission reliability;substations;voltage control;wave power plants;wind power plants;4-VSC based multiterminal HVDC transmission;EMT;MTDC network;PI-based DC grid voltage control technique;converter statio temporal loss;converter station permanent loss;electromagnetic transient;fault ride through;ground fault;hysteresis simulation analysis;offshore wind farm;transmission loss reduction;wave farm integration;Circuit faults;HVDC transmission;Hysteresis;Power conversion;Voltage control;Wind farms;Fault ride through (FRT);Hysteresis controller;MTDC;PI controller;VSC HVDC

Olowookere, Olusegun, Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Habtay, Yehdego and Woodhead, Steve (2014) Fault ride through during loss of converter in a 4-VSC based HVDC transmission. In: Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), 2014 IEEE PES. IEEE, pp. 1-6. (doi:10.1109/ISGTEurope.2014.7028886)

MERGE project, Electric Vehicles, control concepts, micro-grids, virtual power plants, distribution systems

Ferdowsi, Mohsen, Grau Unda, Iñaki, Karfopoulos, Evangelos, Papadopoulos, Panagiotis, Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Cipcigan, Liana, Raab, Andreas F., Dimeas, Aris, Abbasi, Ehsan and Strunz, Kai (2010) Controls and EV aggregation for virtual power plants. Project Report. MERGE.

Moreira, C.L., Rua, David, Karfopoulos, E., Zountouridou, E., Soares, F.J., Bourithi, I., Grau, I., Peças Lopes, J.A., Cipcigan, L.M., Seca, Luis, Moschakis, Marios, Rocha Almeida, P.M., Moutis, P., Papadopoulos, P., Rei, R.J., Bessa, Ricardo J. and Skarvelis-Kazakos, S. (2010) Extend concepts of MG by identifying several EV smart control approaches to be embedded in the Smart Grid concept to manage EV individually or in clusters. Project Report. MERGE.

Virtual Power Plants, micro-generators, micro-grids, carbon emissions, emissions markets, multi-agent systems, distributed generation

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Rikos, Evangelos, Kolentini, Efstathia, Cipcigan, Liana M. and Jenkins, Nick (2013) Implementing agent-based emissions trading for controlling Virtual Power Plant emissions. Electric Power Systems Research, 102. ISSN 0378-7796 (doi:10.1016/j.epsr.2013.04.004)

automotive engineering, batteries, distributed power generation, electric vehicles, network topology, power generation, power systems, substations, transportation, wind power generation

Grau, I., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Papadopoulos, P., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2010) Electric vehicles support for intentional islanding: A prediction for 2030. In: 41st North American Power Symposium. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA, pp. 1-5. ISBN 978-1-4244-4428-1 (Print), 978-1-4244-4429-8 (Online) (doi:10.1109/NAPS.2009.5484016)

battery charging, distribution networks, electric vehicles, stochastic modelling, charging equipment, model uncertainty, probabilistic approach, residential charging, sequential power flows, thermal overloads, voltage drops, battery powered vehicles, load flow, probability

Papadopoulos, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Grau, I., Awad, B., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2010) Impact of residential charging of electric vehicles on distribution networks, a probabilistic approach. In: 2010 45th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-7667-1

carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, emissions, life-cycle, Micro-CHP, micro-generation, microgrid, part-loading, renewable energy, combined cycle gas turbine, life-cycle material breakdown, microgeneration sources, air pollution, combined cycle power stations, distributed power generation, gas turbine power stations

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Cipcigan, Liana M. and Jenkins, Nicholas (2010) Micro-generation for 2050: life-cycle carbon footprint of micro-generation sources. In: 2009 44th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-6823-2

carbon emissions, electric vehicle, environmental dispatch, micro-generation, virtual power plant, UK generic distribution network, carbon emission, carbon optimized virtual power plant, microCHP emission, microgeneration source, microgenerator, optimization, cogeneration, distributed power generation

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Papadopoulos, Panagiotis, Grau, Iñaki, Gerber, Annelies, Cipcigan, Liana M., Jenkins, Nick and Carradore, Loredana (2010) Carbon optimized virtual power plant with electric vehicles. In: 2010 45th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-7667-1

distributed control, distributed power generation, electric vehicles, energy management, environmental economics, power generation dispatch, power system control, smart grids, virtual power plant, EV grid integration, VPP approach, aggregation approach, distributed control approach, distributed energy resources, electric vehicle grid integration, virtual power plant control concepts

Raab, A. F., Ferdowsi, M., Karfopoulos, E., Unda, I. Grau, Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Papadopoulos, P., Abbasi, E., Cipcigan, L.M., Jenkins, N., Hatziargyriou, N. and Strunz, K. (2011) Virtual power plant control concepts with electric vehicles. In: 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4577-0807-7 (Print), 978-1-4577-0808-4 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082214)

distributed generation, distribution networks, electric vehicles, smart charging, stochastic simulation, battery charging, distributed generation, electric vehicle, probabilistic approach, residential distribution networks, spatial distribution uncertainties, thermal overloads, voltage drops

Papadopoulos, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Grau, I., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2012) Electric vehicles' impact on British distribution networks. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, 2 (3). pp. 91-102. ISSN 2042-9738 (doi:10.1049/iet-est.2011.0023)

distributed generation, distribution networks, electric vehicles, smart charging, stochastic simulation, battery charging, probabilistic approach, residential distribution networks, spatial distribution uncertainties, thermal overloads, voltage drops

Papadopoulos, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Grau, I., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2011) Predicting Electric Vehicle impacts on residential distribution networks with distributed generation. In: 2010 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-8220-7 (doi:10.1109/VPPC.2010.5729009)

electric vehicle, multi-agent systems, distribution networks, active demand, smart grids, distributed control

Unda, Inaki Grau, Papadopoulos, Panagiotis, Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Cipcigan, Liana M., Jenkins, Nick and Zabala, Eduardo (2014) Management of electric vehicle battery charging in distribution networks with multi-agent systems. Electric Power Systems Research, 110. pp. 172-179. ISSN 0378-7796 (doi:10.1016/j.epsr.2014.01.014)

electric vehicles, energy management, intelligent agent, mobile agents, multiagent systems, smart grids, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, microgrids, multi-agent system technology, power system operators, vehicle market sales

Karfopoulos, Evangelos L., Papadopoulos, Panagiotis, Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Grau, Inaki, Cipcigan, Liana M., Hatziargyriou, Nikos and Jenkins, Nick (2011) Introducing electric vehicles in the microgrids concept. In: 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems. IEEE Conference Publications . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway, N.J., USA. ISBN 978-1-4577-0807-7 (Print), 978-1-4577-0808-4 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082212)

energy storage, distribution network, micro-grids, distributed generation

Grau Unda, I., Papadopoulos, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2011) Energy storage for balancing a local distribution network area. In: Carbone, Rosario, (ed.) Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids. InTech, New York, USA, pp. 301-320. ISBN 978-953-307-269-2 (doi:10.5772/18305)

micro-generation, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Micro-CHP, micro-sources, renewable energy, biomass

Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spyros, Cipcigan, Liana M. and Jenkins, Nicholas (2009) Micro-generation for 2050: emissions performances of micro-generation sources during operation. Pollack Periodica, 4 (2). pp. 89-99. ISSN 1788-1994 (Print), 1788-3911 (Online) (doi:10.1556/Pollack.4.2009.2.9)

smart DC, distributed storage, grid shift, virtual power plants, demand response, demand side management

Daniel, Simon, Skarvelis-Kazakos, Spryos and Jain, Priyanka (2013) Local smart DC networks and distributed storage for reducing and shifting peak load. In: 22nd International Conference on Electricity Distribution. IET/CIRED, Stockholm, Sweden.

virtual power plants, electric vehicles, micro-grids, micro-generation, resource aggregation, distribution network

Grau, I., Papadopoulos, P., Skarvelis-Kazakos, S., Cipcigan, L.M. and Jenkins, N. (2010) Virtual power plants with electric vehicles. In: 2nd European Conference on SmartGrids and E-Mobility, 20-21 Oct 2010, Brussels, Belgium. (Unpublished)