Operation and Planning of Distribution Systems Under High Renewable Penetration
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F2: Distributed Energy System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 28
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Interests: microgrid and multi-energy system; renewable energy integration; energy management; energy economics
Interests: distributed secondary control of microgrids and cyber-physical systems
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Interests: wind and solar dispatch; uncertainty modeling and analysis; energy storage/EV integration; optimization of integrated energy systems; integrated demand response; AI-driven power system analysis; federated learning
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Interests: power system analysis; renewable energy generation scheduling and control; integrated energy system scheduling and control
Interests: power IoT; cyber-physical systems; cloud-edge-end collaboration; sensing-transmission-computing-control integration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Driven by global decarbonization goals, the integration of distributed energy sources (DERs) into power distribution systems has been accelerating worldwide. However, the high penetration of inherently stochastic and uncertain renewable generation poses significant challenges to distribution system operators, including difficulties in maintaining power balance, voltage and frequency regulation, and ensuring network resilience. To bridge these gaps, new operational paradigms and planning approaches tailored for renewable-rich distribution systems have emerged, such as networked microgrids, DER aggregators, transactive energy-based operation, Volt/Var control with DER inverter participation, and resilience-oriented planning frameworks.
This Special Issue seeks to advance research on enhancing the hosting capacity and accommodation of renewable energy sources in distribution systems, while ensuring their secure, efficient, and resilient operation under high renewable penetration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Modeling of renewable generation and load demand uncertainties;
- Operation and planning strategies under uncertainties;
- Demand-side management and flexibility utilization;
- Coordination of DERs, flexible loads, and energy storage for system balancing;
- Distributed and hierarchical operation techniques for multi-agent distribution systems;
- Transactive energy and market-based coordination mechanisms;
- Volt/Var control and reactive power ancillary service trading with DER participation;
- Virtual inertia provision and frequency regulation;
- Hosting capacity assessment and enhancement methods;
- Resilience assessment of distribution systems;
- Resilience-oriented operation and planning strategies for distribution systems;
- Distribution system expansion planning under high renewable penetration;
- Post-event restoration strategies for distribution systems;
- Network reconfiguration and topology optimization for enhancing flexibility and resilience;
- Operation and planning of multi-energy systems and power-traffic systems.
Dr. Yunyang Zou
Prof. Dr. Chao Deng
Prof. Dr. Yang Li
Dr. Chengfu Wang
Dr. Haijun Liao
Dr. Bo Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distribution systems
- renewable energy integration
- transactive energy
- distributed operation
- voltage and frequency regulation
- system resilience
- multi-energy coordination
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