Special Issue "Towards Sustainable Energy Markets"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. George Kyriakarakos
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Centre for Research and Technology–Hellas (CERTH), Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO), 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: energy policy; rural electrification; microgrids; renewable energy; energy efficiency
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Dear Colleagues,

The energy sector plays a crucial role in the transformation of the economy towards achieving the targets of carbon neutrality globally in line with the Paris Agreement. Efforts should be made in industry, transport, and buildings to increase energy efficiency and to boost renewable energy technologies contributing to the decarbonization of the economy. This Special Issue will focus on how energy sectors may adapt to constantly evolving markets, aiming to support the transition to sustainable, reliable, and competitive energy systems. This issue aims to discuss new drivers of energy transition, integration of renewable sources into the energy system, energy pricing, smart grids, and energy market design. Energy researchers are welcome to submit theoretical and empirical papers on any topic related to the theme of the call. We encourage the submission of papers addressing the mentioned policy goals and particularly exploring the following issues: environmental opportunities of energy transition to overcome the pandemic economic crisis, role of the energy transition on economic growth and job creation, energy efficiency, renewable energies, low carbon technologies, carbon capture and storage, strategic technology switching, electricity pricing, electricity storage systems, smart grid networks, smart cities, carbon pricing, energy risk management, and green finance.

Dr. George Kyriakarakos
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • energy transition
  • renewables
  • green finance
  • energy pricing

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Research on Decision Optimization Model of Microgrid Participating in Spot Market Transaction
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6577; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126577 - 09 Jun 2021
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The development of electricity spot trading provides an opportunity for microgrids to participate in the spot market transaction, which is of great significance to the research of microgrids participating in the electricity spot market. Under the background of spot market construction, this paper [...] Read more.
The development of electricity spot trading provides an opportunity for microgrids to participate in the spot market transaction, which is of great significance to the research of microgrids participating in the electricity spot market. Under the background of spot market construction, this paper takes the microgrid including wind power, photovoltaic (PV), gas turbine, battery storage, and demand response as the research object, uses the stochastic optimization method to deal with the uncertainty of wind and PV power, and constructs a decision optimization model with the goal of maximizing the expected revenue of microgrids in the spot market. Through the case study, the optimal bidding electricity of microgrid operators in the spot market is obtained, and the revenue is USD 923.07. Then, this paper further investigates the effects of demand response, meteorological factors, market price coefficients, and cost coefficients on the expected revenue of microgrids. The results demonstrate that the demand response adopted in this paper has better social–economic benefits, which can reduce the peak load while ensuring the reliability of the microgrid, and the optimization model also ensure profits while extreme weather and related economic coefficients change, providing a set of scientific quantitative analysis tools for microgrids to trade electricity in the spot market. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Sustainable Energy Markets)
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