Method for Determining the Optimal Capacity of Energy Storage Systems with a Long-Term Forecast of Power Consumption

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

The topic is of great interest to the Energy community but the current paper needs the flowing revisions,

-Inadequate literature review, improper justification of previous research works' limitations and defining the knowledge gap which can be filled via this research.

- You have to show the contributions of this study in some specific parts: (1) At the first part of the abstract (2) at the end of the introduction (3) at the first part of the conclusion.

- You should follow this order for your revised abstract: (1) Novelty (2) Methods (3) Results (4) conclusion. Results are more important and you need to provide the most important outcomes here. Please revise the abstract accordingly. Please do not use abbreviations in the abstract. Also, avoid general sentences here.

- You have used a sum of several references in one reference i.e. lumping references. You need to avoid this. Separate the references and explain them separately.

- In the first part of the introduction, you need to discuss: why are researchers investigating and doing research on this topic? Why is this topic important?

- The literature review has been poorly written. In the literature review part, you should perform a potent literature review and scrutinize the most relevant and recent published papers in high-quality journal articles. You should check at least 30 relevant and up-to-date papers (2018 to 2021) in this part. The literature review is one of the main parts of a scientific paper to show your novelty, and alert the readers that you are aware of the performed research studies. Some recently published articles in MDPI and IEEE are listed for improving the literature review:

-Pourdaryaei, Alireza, et al. "Recent Development in Electricity Price Forecasting Based on Computational Intelligence Techniques in Deregulated Power Market." Energies 14.19 (2021): 6104.

- Kaboli, Aghay, et al. "Prediction of metallic conductor voltage owing to electromagnetic coupling via a hybrid ANFIS and backtracking search algorithm." Energies 12.19 (2019): 3651.

- Al-Hinai, Amer, et al. "Offshore Wind Energy Resource Assessment across the Territory of Oman: A Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis." Sustainability 13.5 (2021): 2862.

- Pourdaryaei, Alireza, et al. "Short-term electricity price forecasting via hybrid backtracking search algorithm and ANFIS approach." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 77674-77691.

- Pourdaryaei, Alireza, et al. "Hybrid ANN and artificial cooperative search algorithm to forecast short-term electricity price in de-regulated electricity market." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 125369-125386.

- The last part of the introduction should conclude the limitations of the previous studies and provide the main objectives and novelties of this study. You need to clearly address the knowledge gap and provide some meaningful phrases that can advance the knowledge and can fill in a knowledge gap that has not been considered yet.

- You can use bullet points to show the main novelties of this work.

- Describe the methods chronologically. This is very important to help the readers to replicate your results. Please cite previous research studies where necessary.

- The equations need some references. Do not use two or more references for a single formula.

- The figures have not been appropriately explained as well. The readers cannot perceive the main points. Please describe the critical points and trends in the figures.

- The results are not sufficient to be published in such a high-quality journal. In fact, the results do not provide any worthy information. I expected to see more important findings.

- You need to clearly describe the trends in the figures and justify them.

- The conclusion should be majorly revised, and the main results should be summarized as the bullet points at the end of the conclusion. You should follow this structure: 1. A brief description of what you have done and what is your novelty? 2. How did you investigate the system and what are the main useful parameters? 3. Provide the primary results as the bullet points? 4. State the main limitations of this study and present some suggestions for future research.

Author Response

I express my deep gratitude for your feedback on our work, they were very useful and helped to significantly improve the quality of the article. The article has been revised in accordance with your comments.
You can find answers to your comments in the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors have attended to all my comments from the previous review. I do not have any further comments.

Reviewer 2 Report

fine