Sustainable Transportation: Impact on Power Systems and Future Energy Markets
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F2: Distributed Energy System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electricity markets; renewable energy integration; intelligent agents; computational negotiation
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Dear Colleagues,
The energy world is being challenged by the so-called “three-D’s”—decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. Future power systems will be characterized by very large penetrations of renewables (towards 100%), supporting the operation of both central and local markets, as well as the existence of a wide range of distributed energy resources, such as intelligent micro-grids and aggregation services that are able to participate in the different market layers in a cost-effective way. Electric vehicles are expected to play a key role in future power systems. While the integration of small EV fleets typically has minimal effects on distribution grids, large-scale adoption presents significant challenges. These include potential issues with grid adequacy, operational security, and power quality. At the transmission and generation level, impacts may include erratic power flows, insufficient reserves, grid stress, and shifts in marginal generation units—ultimately influencing electricity market prices. To adress these challenges, one viable approach involves a synergistic integration of EVs into smart grids through demand-side management. This strategy enables controlled EV charging aligned with both grid constraints and user preferences, reducing the need for costly infrastructure upgrades. Additionally, it opens the door for EVs to offer new balancing and regulation services, supporting the evolution from centralized systems to decentralized, intelligent energy networks. EV owners could also benefit through appropriate compensation for their contributions to grid stability.
This Special Issue seeks to contribute to the agenda of “Modern Power Systems integrated with Electric Vehicles” by considering a multi-disciplinary approach.
We therefore invite papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, models, analytical aspects, and case studies, as well as simulation-based and assessment papers, from the various disciplines related to the main activities of power systems, i.e., the generation, transport, distribution, and consumption of electrical energy.
Dr. Fernando Lopes
Dr. Sriparna Roy Ghatak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- • Power generation
- • Renewable generation and integration
- • Power system economics
- • Day-ahead, intra-day, and balancing markets
- • Local flexibility markets
- • Retail markets
- • Grid operation and security
- • Smart grid technology
- • Distributed energy resources
- • Aggregation services
- • Electric vehicles
- • Energy storage systems
- • Energy prosumers
- • Demand response
- • Demand-side management
- • Modern power systems
- • Digitalization
- • Decarbonization
- • Decentralization
- • Clean energy transition
- • Electric vehicle
- • Vehicle to grid.
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