Operation, Regulation and Planning of Power and Natural Gas Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies on “Operation, Regulation and Planning of Power and Natural Gas Systems”.

Worldwide, electricity systems are evolving to adapt to a low-carbon economy, in which more and more renewable energy resources are being integrated. These changes create a need for new methods, tools, and approaches to deal with the operation and planning of electricity systems. On the other hand, new regulations must be developed in order to deal with a wide integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, both from a generation and a network (transmission and distribution) perspective.

Furthermore, the natural gas sector is going through a significant transformation, related mainly both to technological advances and strategic policy decisions. While there is a great uncertainty in the future of natural gas within the global energy matrix, it is clear that it will play a major role during the next few years as a bridge fuel towards a decarbonized economy. In this context, natural gas systems are undergoing deep transformations, necessitating the creation of new tools to operate and plan gas systems, as well as new approaches to regulating them.

This Special Issue, therefore, seeks to contribute to the energy transformation agenda through original contributions focused on both power and natural gas systems. We invite papers on innovative operation and planning methods, as well as papers on regulation of both energy systems.

Prof. Dr. Javier Reneses
Dr. Antonio Bello
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.