Dear Colleagues,

There is currently a large deployment of smart power grid systems that include various renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic and wind energy. These renewable energy sources could have considerable impacts on power grid systems from both the technical and environmental sides. The generated renewable energy can cause discontinuity of energy production due to the non-programmable and unpredictable nature of renewable sources. In fact, the output of plants powered by non-programmable renewable energy sources (NPRESs) significantly changes the hourly pattern of zonal loads that need to be met by conventional generation plants. Thus, NPRESs introduce a stochastic component into the electricity demand related to the inherent variability of weather conditions, making the residual electricity load increasingly intermittent and harder to predict. As a result, the high penetration of NPRESs plants results in increasing imbalances between demand and generation and an increasing difficulty in building up the reserve margins needed to manage the randomness of the load, while providing security and stability to the grid. For this reason, there have been increasing efforts by the research community to establish accurate forecasting systems. This Special Issue aims to present advanced forecasting methods with applications that cover various practical challenges in sustainable power grids.

Topics to be covered in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
• Forecasting of PV and wind power generation;
• Energy demand forecasting;
• Forecast models for wind speed and solar radiations;
• Forecast models for grid connected MPPT;
• Electric vehicle load forecasting;
• Electricity price forecasting;
• Forecasting techniques for smart grids;
• Artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches;
• Application of forecasting techniques in power systems;
• Anomalies and faults prediction.

Dr. Cristina Ventura
Dr. Santi Agatino Rizzo
Guest Editors

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•  renewable forecasting
•  renewable energy sources
•  solar radiation forecasting
•  wind speed forecasting
•  fault detection
•  power forecasting
•  MPPT forecasting
•  artificial intelligence