Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Smart Distribution and Utilization Systems
A Special Issue of Computation (ISSN 2079-3197) belonging to the section "Computational Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2027 | Viewed by 184
Editors
Interests: situational awareness in intelligent distribution networks; optimization and control technologies for renewable energy grid integration; artificial intelligence-empowered microgrids/distribution networks; big data and cloud computing technologies for smart power distribution and consumption
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Interests: microgrids; energy management system; energy-use internet; electricity market
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Interests: low-carbon power system; smart power consumption; big data analytics for power distribution and consumption; behind-the-meter source and load monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the rapid development of high-penetration renewable energy, electric vehicles, distributed energy storage, flexible loads, and virtual power plants, distribution and utilization systems are evolving from traditional passive power delivery networks into new intelligent systems featuring high-dimensional sensing, active control, low-carbon coordination, and multi-agent interaction. Artificial intelligence technologies provide new theoretical tools and engineering approaches for state awareness, load identification, operational optimization, fault diagnosis, user behavior analysis, flexibility aggregation, and electricity–carbon coordinated decision-making in smart distribution and utilization systems.
This Special Issue focuses on key technologies for artificial intelligence-enabled smart distribution and utilization systems. We welcome original research on the applications of machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, large language models, data-driven optimization, physics-informed modeling, and trustworthy artificial intelligence in distribution networks, demand-side systems, integrated energy systems, virtual power plants, and industrial loads. In particular, we encourage submissions addressing source–grid–load–storage coordination, demand-side flexibility exploration, non-intrusive load monitoring, electricity–carbon factor analysis, industrial-load-based virtual power plants, edge–cloud collaborative control, privacy protection, and secure and trustworthy operation under the background of low-carbon energy transition.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together the latest advances from the interdisciplinary fields of power systems, artificial intelligence, energy management, and low-carbon technologies, and to promote the development of smart distribution and utilization systems toward greater security, economy, low-carbon performance, flexibility, and trustworthiness.
Dr. Leijiao Ge
Prof. Dr. Haochen Hua
Dr. Haiwen Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- smart distribution systems
- smart electricity utilization technologies
- low-carbon power systems
- non-intrusive load monitoring
- virtual power plants
- demand response
- industrial load flexibility
- source–grid–load–storage coordination
- electricity–carbon coordinated analysis
- distributed energy resources
- electric vehicles and energy storage
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