Smart Grids and Electric Vehicle Integration: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "E: Electric Vehicles".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 1013
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Interests: transportation; city logistics; traffic impact; electric mobility; micromobility; freight transport
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Interests: smart grids; energy storage; hydrogen and fuel cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global energy transition necessitates the radical transformation of the traditional power system into a smarter, more resilient, and sustainable one. In this evolving landscape, smart grids play a key role, offering unprecedented potential to enhance operational flexibility, improve grid reliability, and efficiently integrate renewable energy sources and electric vehicles (EVs). However, these opportunities come with significant technical, economic, and regulatory challenges that require interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative thinking.
This forthcoming Special Issue, “Smart Grids and Electric Vehicle Integration: Challenges and Opportunities” will publish original contributions that explore the latest advancements, methodologies, and case studies in the development and deployment of smart grid technologies and electric mobility. The goal is to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of emerging solutions that address the pressing issues of flexibility management, reliability enhancement, and EV–grid integration.
We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Grid flexibility architectures and technologies (e.g., demand response, energy storage, microgrids);
- Strategies for improving grid reliability and resilience;
- Electric vehicle integration, including its impacts and opportunities, smart charging models (V2G, V2H), EV fleet management, and EV development and deployment;
- Optimization algorithms and AI-based techniques for smart grid management and EV integration;
- Regulatory, economic, and social dimensions of smart grid deployment;
- Local, national, and international case studies and best practices.
Research that explores the complex mechanisms involved in the integration and management of renewable energy sources in combination with electric vehicles within smart power systems is particularly welcome.
This Special Issue is intended for researchers, professionals, policymakers, and stakeholders in the energy and electric mobility sector who are interested in contributing theoretical insights, applied research, simulation results, and modelling or critical analyses. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process, and selected papers will be published by a leading international academic publisher.
Authors are invited to submit an abstract (300–500 words) by the deadline specified in the official call. Full papers will be requested at a later stage, following the editorial guidelines.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Comi
Dr. Francesco Sergi
Dr. Davide Aloisio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart grids
- electric vehicles
- electric mobility
- energy flexibility
- renewable energy sources
- microgrids
- electric vehicle fleet management
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