Resilience-Oriented Smart Grid Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes, as well as cyber-attacks, cause severe damage to electric power system infrastructure, due to which unpredicted electricity blackouts happen for longer durations that may span several weeks. Such extreme events can be managed by designing resilient smart grid systems. Resilience is an integral part of electric power systems to provide continuous and reliable electric power supply to end users for achieving sustainable economic operation of the smart grid system. With the evolution and deployment of smart sensors along with advanced information and communication infrastructure, resilience can be effectively achieved in smart grid systems. These recent innovative developments have led to extensive research efforts to meet the demands for the development of resilience-efficient smart grid systems.

In this context, this Special Issue aims to be an open platform to share knowledge about progress and challenges in resilience-oriented smart grid systems against natural and cyber disasters. It particularly seeks original contributions regarding ideas, recent developments, or mature studies addressing both theoretical and experimental aspects.

Dr. Muhammad Fahad Zia
Prof. Mohamed Benbouzid
Dr. Elhoussin Elbouchikhi
Prof. S. M. Muyeen
Guest Editors

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