Energy Systems Planning and Operation under High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the massive penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) has been deployed worldwide to provide an appropriate answer to urgent problems related to global warming and climate change. However, the intrinsic nature of RES, such as intermittency, low controllability, and hard predictability, brings new challenges for power systems, which were developed in the past to connect dispatchable and controllable power plants to supply a slowly growing and passive demand. To further increase the challenges, the load patterns have changed as well, becoming increasingly active towards distributed energy resources (DERs) such as distributed generation, electric vehicles, demand response, storage energy devices, etc.

As the energy mix in several countries is becoming more renewable and the active behavior in electricity demand has been introduced rapidly in the last few years through DER, electricity transmission systems are now connecting uncertain and intermittent generation patterns to flexible and autonomous or locally controlled demand movements, and the need for further planning and operation studies is eminently clear.

Therefore, this issue of Energies will draw on the findings of mathematical models and applied optimization for renewable penetration from across the world and discuss the use of energy planning and operation in the context of energy transition for the mitigation of global warming and climate change.

We highly encourage papers on cutting-edge industry practice exemplars that may be leveraged to promote the deployment of renewable energy resources across power systems throughout the world.

Dr. Phillipe Vilaça Gomes
Prof. Dr. Bruno Henriques Dias
Dr. Basharat Jamil
Guest Editors

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