Smart Grid Technologies and Energy Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 987
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed generation; energy storage; grid integration; smart grid and microgrid; sustainable energy and power network; energy efficiency and energy management; operation and protection of power network; protection technologies; data communications and RFID technology
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Interests: smart grid communication; peer-to-peer energy trading; energy management; Internet of Things; wireless communication; smart grid data analytics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is advancing towards sustainable energy targets to meet the UN’s sustainable development goals and ensure access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy. By accommodating various renewable energy (RE) sources with advanced sensors, control, and communication technologies, the power grid is being transformed into an intelligent smart grid. Moreover, the smart grid intends to offer the consistent and reliable delivery of energy with efficient energy management, smart metering with smart sensors for automation, self-healing capabilities, and efficient decision support applications.
The smart grid is a diverse integration of different technologies that facilitate grid resiliency, cost reduction, emission reduction, energy transaction, and market participation to enhance the affordability, reliability and sustainability of the energy network. With the greater integration of RE sources with power electronic converters, the power grid is also associated with numerous challenges related to generation, distribution, operation, management, protection, power quality, reliability, and cyber security.
To address the various issues that challenge the implementation of the smart grid, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of studies related to smart grid technologies to ensure energy sustainability. This Special Issue will accept original and review research articles that address the following topics:
- Smart grid energy resources (distributed renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, waste to energy, hydrogen to energy, hydrogen fuel cell and their integration and impact assessments);
- Smart grid structures (design and system modelling, microgrid, virtual power plant, power converters, Smart meter, sensors, Internet of Things, phasor measurement unit);
- Smart grid control, operation, and management (network management, energy management, optimization and control, efficiency and reliability assessment, power quality, smart grid communications);
- Smart grid security and policy (protection, cybersecurity, big data, energy market, energy trading, and pricing policy, techno-economic-environmental assessment).
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Mohammad Taufiqul Arif
Dr. Shama Islam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart grid design
- modelling
- distributed renewable energy sources
- energy management
- protection
- cyber security
- energy market
- energy trading
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