Advanced Energy Storage Systems: Optimization, Planning, Control and Operation
A Special Issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) belonging to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2027 | Viewed by 1
Editors
Interests: renewable energy power generation control; compressed air energy storage technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing penetration of wind and solar generation is creating more varied flexibility needs in power systems. Advanced energy storage systems, including electrochemical, mechanical, thermal, and hybrid technologies, can help balance energy across timescales and support reliable, low-carbon operation. Their contribution depends on more than the performance of individual devices. Accurate models, suitable operating modes, efficient energy conversion, coordinated control, and sound investment decisions are needed to realize their value in different grid and user-side applications. Important research challenges remain. Storage technologies differ in response speed, duration, efficiency, degradation, site requirements, and cost. These differences complicate technology selection, capacity allocation, and coordination with renewable generation and other flexible resources. Planning models must also account for uncertain supply and demand, while operating strategies should connect short-term control with long-term economic and environmental outcomes.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews addressing the modelling, evaluation, planning, control, and operation of advanced energy storage systems. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Storage system modelling and experimental validation;
- Operating-mode design and analysis;
- Energy efficiency improvement;
- Performance and reliability assessment;
- Storage sizing and siting;
- Economic planning under uncertainty;
- Flexible control and optimal scheduling;
- Coordination with demand response and flexible generation;
- Renewable energy integration and grid services;
- Life-cycle cost and carbon assessment.
We particularly encourage studies that link storage technology characteristics to practical power-system needs, compare solutions using transparent assumptions, and validate proposed methods through experiments or realistic case studies.
Dr. Sen Cui
Dr. Hanchen Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced energy storage systems
- energy storage modelling
- energy efficiency assessment
- capacity planning
- optimal operation
- flexible control
- renewable energy integration
- storage and flexibility coordination
- techno-economic and carbon assessment
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