Advances in Smart Renewable Energy: Intelligent Forecasting, High-Performance Converters and Modeling

The global transition toward renewable energy and smart grids demands high‑performance converters to ensure high efficiency, high power density, reliability, and fast dynamic performance. Wide bandgap devices, soft‑switching techniques, multilevel inverters, and grid‑forming control strategies play a crucial role in enabling the large‑scale integration of renewable energy resources, including photovoltaic (PV) systems, wind energy, battery storage, electric vehicles, and microgrids. The rapid growth of renewable energy integration is placing increasing technical demands on power electronic converters, including challenges related to conversion efficiency, thermal management, harmonic distortion, weak‑grid stability, and component lifetime under dynamic operating conditions. In addition, converter‑dominated power systems require robust grid‑forming capabilities and coordinated operation with energy storage systems and electric vehicle infrastructures. Recent progress in advanced modeling, real‑time monitoring and control, and fault‑tolerant converter design provides new opportunities to enhance system reliability and grid stability.This Research Topic aims to collect contributions that advance converter technologies and system integration for renewable energy and smart grid applications. We welcome original research and review papers that present novel models, converter architectures, control strategies, and practical case studies related to integrated energy systems. Studies addressing decentralized coordination, grid service provision, data‑driven forecasting, optimization methods, advanced control strategies, and system‑level performance assessment are particularly encouraged.The topics for this Research Topic include, but are not limited to:- Advanced power electronic converter topologies for renewable energy integration- High‑efficiency modulation techniques and advanced control strategies for power converters- Grid‑forming and grid‑support inverter technologies for converter‑dominated power systems- Power quality improvement and stability enhancement in weak or renewable‑rich grids- Bidirectional converters for battery energy storage systems and electric vehicle integration- Reliability‑oriented converter design, thermal management, and lifetime analysis- Hybrid renewable energy system design, sizing, and performance evaluation- Microgrids, community energy systems, and distributed coordination of renewable resources- Integrated energy systems and sector coupling (power–heat–gas–hydrogen–transport)- Forecasting of renewable generation, electricity demand, and flexibility resources- Optimal operation, scheduling of renewable and integrated energy systems;- Advanced predictive control methods and algorithms;- New concepts of Distributed energy resource (DER) and Virtual power plant (VPP). Topic editors: Nurkhat Zhakiyev, Korhan Kayisli, Hafsa Qamar Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/78982/advances-in-smart-renewable-energy-intelligent-forecasting-high-performance-converters-and-modeling