Produccion, control y gestion distribuida de energia: una revision de terminologia y enfoques habituales

Over the last few decades, lines of research related to distributed generation and energy management have given rise to the introduction of novel terms referring to continuous production systems and their optimal design, scheduling, control, or modelling. Although some of those ones emerged in the field of power grid analysis and operation, and their later extension towards other energy sources, all they share some common features and hence can be studied from a holistic perspective. In this paper, a review of different ongoing approaches is performed, aimed at offering a global and straightforward view of the stateof-the-art concepts to readers. In order to do so, the most remarkable elements that can be found in publications???employed terminology, context, research purpose, mathematical treatment, optimisation strategies, and tools???are first defined and characteri-sed. This helped to analyse and classify, in tabular form, some articles selected according to the impact of the journal, their number of cites and the use of certain terms that emerged in the ambit of distributed energy sistems, in order to find possible research gaps in this topic in relation the usual simulation, control, and optimisation techniques. The main conclusions evidence a scarce realisation of applied testing in real-world facilities and a broad neglect of environmental criteria, when it comes to designing and operating this kind of systems.