Threats and Protection of Energy Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editor
Interests: power systems transients; lightning protection; critical infrastructure protection; cyber solutions for protection; dual use technologies for safety and security; active/dynamic protection systems; risk assessment and management; hazard assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
It is difficult to imagine our daily life without the impact of energy systems on society and business. The ongoing changes in power system architectures, like massive renewable source installation, require careful study to ensure service continuity for production, transmission, and delivery. Technological advancements, the digital domain, the implementation of digital twins, and legal changes, and so on, all create fresh conditions that can affect the reliability of production, transmission, and delivery. These evolving conditions introduce modern scenarios for service continuity, highlighting the need to address challenges in identifying and understanding threats, parameterizing them effectively, and developing appropriate methods and techniques at various executive levels.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to energy system protection against contemporary threats.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Strengthening the resilience of energy systems in the transition stage: production, transmission, and delivery aspects;
- Determinants and situational and organizational conditions in the decision-making process for service continuity provisions of power systems;
- Risk management in the decision-making process, supported by AI;
- Ensuring the reliability and continuity of energy systems and services;
- Securing energy systems against natural risk: strategies, techniques, and best practices;
- Securing energy systems against cyber-attacks: strategies, techniques, and best practices;
- Innovative technological solutions for energy systems protection.
Dr. Tomasz Kisielewicz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- safety and security power systems
- dual-use innovative power energy solutions
- intrusion detection/prevention systems
- software multi-agent solutions for power systems
- energy infrastructure security, risk assessment and management
- energy transition by design
- contemporary threats of power energy systems
- technological aspects of energy security
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