Enhancing Renewable Energy Integration with Flexible Power Sources
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F1: Electrical Power System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 21
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Interests: hydropower system operations; hydropower-dominated electricity market; complementarity of renewable energy sources; data-driven large-scale power system operations; impact of climate change on high-proportion renewable energy system
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Dear Colleagues,
The large-scale integration of variable renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, presents a critical challenge to the stability and reliability of modern power systems. The inherent intermittency and unpredictability of these energy sources create imbalances between electricity supply and demand. This underscores the urgent need for flexible power sources that can rapidly respond to these fluctuations. Technologies such as hydropower, pumped storage, grid-scale energy storage, other flexible power sources, and demand-side response are pivotal in mitigating the variability of renewables, ensuring grid stability, and preventing curtailment of clean energy.
This Special Issue aims to explore innovative methods and strategies to enhance power flexibility to support the grid integration of large-scale wind and solar power, as well as methodologies for conducting renewable energy integration analysis. We invite submissions covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following key research directions:
1) Dispatching hydropower–wind–solar hybrid systems;
2) Quantifying the flexibility requirements of power systems;
3) Quantifying the flexibility capability of hydropower plants;
4) Analyzing the capability of new energy integration;
5) Pumped-storage renovation of conventional hydropower;
6) Methods for configuring new energy storage systems.
Prof. Dr. Jianjian Shen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wind power
- solar power
- hydropower
- flexible power sources
- renewable energy integration
- power flexibility
- hydropower–wind–solar coordination and operation
- power flexibility quantification
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