Advanced Power Electronics and Sustainable Energy Systems: Recent Developments, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Energy is the cornerstone and motivational force of modern industry. The energy revolution will introduce a new generation of electrical technology applications in industries. Power electronics provide multiple ways for many new challenges arising from a dynamic and accelerated transformation towards a carbon-neutral energy system to be solved. From generation to consumption, power electronics enables solutions such as battery energy storage systems, pumped hydro storage, hydrogen production, and conversion back to electricity.

In past decades, power electronics has brought about efficiency, compactness, and reliability, which have strongly contributed to the journey towards achieving carbon-neutral targets. The combination of digital technologies and PE facilitates the control of the system by gathering and analyzing data, and thus improving decision-making. Edge and cloud solutions improve the control and interaction of PE solutions with the power grid. Augmented reality, machine learning, digital twin technologies, virtual technology, and artificial intelligence bring about more healthy management and new experiences.

Due to its speed and outcome, the energy system is now undergoing a tremendous ‘revolution’. Increasing sustainability and environmental attention and supporting new technology developments in the power sector are making electricity the backbone of the future energy system. Its speed of reaction, flexibility of control, and the scalability across power and voltage levels are key attributes that will ensure resiliency of the future energy system.

This Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Power Electronics and Sustainable Energy Systems: Recent Developments, Challenges and Future Perspectives”, provides an exchange platform for researchers in related fields.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Sustainable energy production;
• optimization of conventional energy resources;
• electricity storage and energy efficiency;
• objectives of using renewable energy;
• renewable energy management and environmental impact;
• power planning reducing emissions;
• envisioning future energy systems;
• energy harvesting;
• clean and renewable energy;
• photovoltaic systems;
• wind energy systems;
• new energy applications;
• energy-saving technology;
• energy management system;
• active load management;
• demand management;
• market operation system.

Prof. Dr. Jizhong Zhu
Dr. Hongying He
Dr. Di Zhang
Dr. Ziyu Chen
Dr. Shenglin Li
Guest Editors

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