Grid Modernization ─ Future Energy Network Infrastructure

Mohammadreza Daneshvar was born in Tabriz, Iran, in 1994. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran, in 2016, and the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2018, all with honors. He is currently a research assistant with the Smart Energy Systems Lab in Electrical Power Systems Engineering at the University of Tabriz. His research interests include Smart Grids, Transactive Energy, Energy Management, Renewable Energy Sources, Multi-Carrier Energy Systems, Grid Modernization, Electrical Energy Storage Systems, Microgrids, Energy Hubs, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Blockchain Technology, and Optimization Techniques.Somayeh Asadi, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Asadi’s research interests focus on automated design,critical infrastructure systems, food-water-energy nexus, design of high-performance buildings, and environmental sustainability. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Advanced Materials Research and the Journal of Environmental Conservation Research, has obtained funding from diverse sources, including the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Energy, the Qatar National Research Fund, and the National Science Foundation, and published more than 70 journal and conference papers.Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. Prior to that he was Associate Professor at the University of Tabriz. Before joining the University of Tabriz, he was a research associate at Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary. He obtained MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Dr. Mohammadi is head of the Smart Energy Systems Lab and his mains research interests are renewable energies, microgrid systems, and smart grids.

• Overview of the grid modernization and smart grids.- Modernizing the energy customer side.- Technical and theoretical analysis of the future energy network modernization from various aspects.- Advanced communication protocols in modernizing of the future energy grids.- Energy trading possibilities in the modern multi carrier energy networks.- Probabilistic modeling and optimizing of the modern grids with a full share of RERs: robustness and opportunistic analyzing of the system.- An application of the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) in the optimization of the modern grids.