New Insights in Power System Operations and Planning

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to introduce a Special Issue of Applied Science on “New Insights in Power System Operation and Planning”, and to invite interested authors to submit original contributions on the related topics.

The COVID-19 crisis has underscored electricity’s vital role in modern socities. Reliable electricity ensures the smooth functioning of hospitals and enables many people living under lockdown to continue to work, study, shop, and socialize from home. At the same time, electricity is critical for successfully achieving transitions to clean energy. The electricity sector is the biggest single source of CO₂ emissions today.

For rapid clean energy transitions to succeed, electricity security is more important than ever. Today we are witnessing the biggest transformation of the electricity sector since it started to emerge over a century ago. These changes come from the new success of power generation, new digital technologies, new business models, new forms of storage, and more. They are exciting and hugely promising, but they also bring new challenges as they disrupt the ways in which complex electricity systems operate.

Contributions for this Special Issues are expected to address the most advanced topics referring to today’s power system operation and control, and emergent planning startegies.

The growing digitalization of electricity systems, the rise of smart grids, and the diversification toward a wider distribution of generation sources calls for strengthening cyber security measures and making them a central part of the planning and operation systems. Additionally, the effects of climate change mean that the systems need to become more resilient to the impacts of rising temperatures and extreme weather events.

The main topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Effects of uncertainty on power system operations;
• Effect of large-scale integration of distributed resources on the short circuit capacity in transmission systems;
• Transmission system planning under uncertainty;
• Reserve planning;
• Mitigation of oscillations in transmission networks by using storage and demand;
• Vulnerability and security of power system infrastructure and communications;
• Joint expansion planning of power systems and other energy networks;
• Power system operations and planning considering peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality.

Prof. Dr. Jun Yang
Dr. Ghamgeen Rashed Izat
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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