Energy Digitalisation and Data

Dear Colleagues,

Digitalisation is an ongoing trend shaping the energy sector, with the potential to guarantee better assets utilisation, facilitate the integration of variable renewable energy sources and multiple energy carriers, and create growth and jobs. In summary, it is a vital asset of the energy transition. However, it is also associated with new challenges such as IT energy consumption, data access, protection and privacy, as well as cybersecurity.

It is important for the research community to contribute to the debate on this issue, highlighting possible paths, benefits and challenges of this trend. How can new energy technologies harvest the potential benefits of digitalisation, expected in both energy systems planning and operation? What are the boundaries of these benefits, and are they matched by drawbacks? Which policies are necessary to allow societies to reap these benefits? Researchers are welcomed to submit original research manuscripts to this Special Issue on the topic of ‘Energy digitalisation’ and in particular on the keywords below. 

This Special Issue will particularly prize works whose results will be replicable though the sharing of data and methods. Authors are also encouraged to share their work through preprints repositories.

The works accepted by this Special Issue will be invited for presentation at the 62th EUREC general meeting in December 2022 during a workshop with the same title. 

Dr. Andrea Michiorri
Dr. Christina N. Papadimitriou
Carsten Hoyer-Klick
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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.

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