Renewable Electricity Markets
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2086
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electric power industry; agent systems; artificial intelligence; software design; smart grids; ICT infrastructure
Interests: electric power systems; microgrids; electricity markets; power flow
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decades, the electric power industry worldwide has been undergoing major restructuring to unbundle generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power and to create competitive electricity markets. These markets are generally organized by independent transmission operators and run on a day-ahead and real-time basis. Electric suppliers offer to sell their power generation for a particular bid price and electric distributors bid for that generation to meet the power demand of their customers. The market clears when supply matches demand and clearing price drives customer choice of supplier.
Climate change has spurred an increasing interest in renewable electricity supply to limit the emission of carbon dioxide and to provide clean energy sources. Electric suppliers and distributors created a rather different electricity market with a mix of renewable electricity supply that is dependent most and foremost on solar and wind power generation. End customers became motivated not only to consume power from an electric supplier but also to install their own renewable sources to produce power. The end customer power system is now known as microgrid and may operate in an isolated or a grid-connected mode. Microgrids have been increasingly installed in various shapes and sizes and have created new market dynamics where end customers can buy and sell power to the grid.
In a wider context, research has been vast in the area of electricity markets to address the dynamics and economics of how grid and microgrid power systems can operate while meeting constraints of various sorts. The specific context, options, and complexities, however, need further analysis to explore frontiers in renewable electricity markets in a Special Issue. We invite research papers and case studies for this Special Issue on the following topics:
- Renewable electricity market models;
- Regulatory options and decarbonization strategies;
- Smart grid and microgrid markets and policies;
- Solar, wind, biogas, and storage in renewable electricity markets;
- Microgrid AC and DC alternatives and control strategies;
- Clean renewable energy solutions for reliable and resilient power;
- Smart energy solutions and automation for better economics and efficiency;
- Smart building, energy efficiency, and demand side management;
- Challenges in transformative energy and energy-as-a-service trends;
- Digital transformation in the new paradigm of the electric power sector.
Dr. Salem Al-Agtash
Dr. Jose L. Martinez-Ramos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable electricity markets
- smart grids
- microgrids
- clean energy
- transformative energy
