Researchers from our group participate in EEEIC 2026 and present advances on Energy Communities and Prosumers Lisboa, June 29-July 02, 2026

Last week researchers from our group participated in EEEIC 2026, the 26th edition of the ‘International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering’, held at the Centro de Congressos, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal. Our researchers were part of a session about the emerging operational challenges in energy communities, a current topic that attracts the attention of the best researchers in the world.

The articles ‘Decentralized consensus for optimal economic dispatch in plug and play energy communities with prosumers’ and ‘Supervisory control strategy for a multi-energy community based on equivalent green hydrogen production maximization’ were presented in the conference.

In ‘Decentralized consensus for optimal economic dispatch in plug and play energy communities with prosumers’, a robust decentralized consensus algorithm is proposed to ensure absolute economic optimality under normal and severe contingency scenarios. The approach validates a plug-and-play self-healing mechanism that autonomously renegotiates generation, achieving operational cost reductions of over 10.38% even under critical multi-fault network conditions.

‘Supervisory control strategy for a multi-energy community based on equivalent green hydrogen production maximization’ proposes an advanced supervisory control strategy based on an equivalent green hydrogen production maximization law is proposed for multi-energy communities. By dynamically linking the equivalence factor to the battery state of charge, the framework autonomously optimizes energy arbitrage, reducing battery equivalent cycling by over 80% without hardware oversizing.

Both articles are included as part of the national project ‘Dynamic modelling and intelligent control of energy communities in active distribution networks’ – ConEC (Ref. PID2024-156036OB-C32), funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER/EU.

The article ‘Decentralized consensus for optimal economic dispatch in plug and play energy communities with prosumers’ was also supported by the regional project ‘Development of operation and control systems of microgrids with prosumers’ – ConPro (Ref. DGP_PIDI_2024_02368), funded by the Consejería de Universidades, Investigación e Innovación de la Junta de Andalucía.

A huge thank you to the organizers, researchers, and participants for making this a successful event. We hope to see you all again soon!