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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Power Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F1: Electrical Power System".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 December 2025 | Viewed by 341

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School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China.
Interests: power system reliability; voltage control and reactive power planning; intelligent distribution network operation and planning; internet + smart energy; new power systems; artificial intelligence applications in power systems

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School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Interests: artificial intelligence applications in power systems; big data analysis and application in power systems; virtual power plant

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Electrical power systems are currently confronting multiple challenges, including a high percentage of new energy, source–grid–load–storage coordination, and extreme climate events. Artificial intelligence (AI), as a key enabler to address these challenges, has demonstrated transformative potential across all segments of electrical power systems. With the rapid advancement of emerging AI technologies such as generative large language models (LLMs), federated learning, explainable AI (XAI), and embodied intelligence, large-scale applications will emerge across electrical power system domains, including planning and operation, stability control, asset management, safety and emergency response, etc. These innovations will further enhance the security, reliability, and cost-efficiency of electrical power system operations.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the application of artificial intelligence in electrical power systems.

Topics of interest for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • All aspects of AI algorithms and theories for power generation, transformation, distribution, and consumption domains;
  • Ultra-short-term load forecasting methods;
  • Renewable energy generation forecasting;
  • Power system fault diagnosis and defense;
  • Robotic intelligent grid inspection;
  • Large-scale market clearing algorithms for electricity trading;
  • Power supply–demand interaction mechanisms.

Prof. Dr. Yongjun Zhang
Dr. Yingqi Yi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • electrical power systems
  • large language models
  • deep learning

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Extreme Grid Operation Scenario Generation Framework Considering Discrete Failures and Continuous Output Variations
by Dong Liu, Guodong Guo, Zhidong Wang, Fan Li, Kaiyuan Jia, Chenzhenghan Zhu, Haotian Wang and Yingyun Sun
Energies 2025, 18(14), 3838; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18143838 - 18 Jul 2025
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In recent years, extreme weather events have occurred more frequently. The resulting equipment failure, renewable energy extreme output, and other extreme operation scenarios affect the smooth operation of power grids. The occurrence probability of extreme operation scenarios is small, and the occurrence frequency [...] Read more.
In recent years, extreme weather events have occurred more frequently. The resulting equipment failure, renewable energy extreme output, and other extreme operation scenarios affect the smooth operation of power grids. The occurrence probability of extreme operation scenarios is small, and the occurrence frequency in historical operation data is low, which affects the modeling accuracy for scenario generation. Meanwhile, extreme operation scenarios in the form of discrete temporal data lack corresponding modeling methods. Therefore, this paper proposes a definition and generation framework for extreme power grid operation scenarios triggered by extreme weather events. Extreme operation scenario expansion is realized based on the sequential Monte Carlo sampling method and the distribution shifting algorithm. To generate equipment failure scenarios in discrete temporal data form and extreme output scenarios in continuous temporal data form for renewable energy, a Gumbel-Softmax variational autoencoder and an extreme conditional generative adversarial network are respectively proposed. Numerical examples show that the proposed models can effectively overcome limitations related to insufficient historical extreme data and discrete extreme scenario training. Additionally, they can generate improved-quality equipment failure scenarios and renewable energy extreme output scenarios and provide scenario support for power grid planning and operation. Full article
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