Intelligent Technologies for Secure, Resilient, and Flexible Power Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of renewable energy generation, battery energy storage systems, and power-electronic interfaces is fundamentally changing the behavior and operation of modern power systems. These developments create new opportunities for cleaner and more flexible electricity supply, but they also pose challenges for stability, protection, fault behavior, system observability, cybersecurity, and secure operation under increasingly dynamic market conditions. Innovative electronic, automation, communication, and data-driven solutions are essential to maintaining reliability and resilience while enabling the energy transition.

This Special Issue of Electronics aims to bring together original research and review papers on intelligent technologies supporting secure, resilient, and flexible transmission and distribution systems. Particular attention is given to research that combines advanced sensing, digital protection, power-electronic control, real-time monitoring, data analytics, and the coordinated management of distributed resources.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Power system stability, operational security, resilience, and restoration;
• Grid-forming and grid-following converters, advanced inverter control, and fault ride-through;
• Protection and automation, short-circuit modeling, fault detection, and digital substations;
• Wide-area monitoring, system observability, intelligent sensing, and synchrophasor applications;
• Integration and coordinated control of renewable generation, battery storage, and distributed energy resources;
• AI-assisted forecasting, diagnostics, optimization, decision support, and digital twins;
• Demand-side flexibility, ancillary services, and market-aware control of energy resources;
• Cybersecurity and interoperability of power-system control and communication infrastructures.

This Special Issue is associated with SEBOR'27, the second edition of a conference on operational and market security in power systems, to be held on 6–8 April 2027 in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (https://sebor.pollub.pl). Contributions are welcome from conference participants and the wider international research community. Submitted manuscripts should offer substantial scientific or technological advances within the scope of Electronics and will be evaluated through the journal's standard editorial and peer-review procedures.

Prof. Dr. Piotr Miller
Dr. Robert Małkowski
Guest Editors

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