Dear Colleagues,

The development of green energy and the technological evolution of the power industry are essential to achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Smart grids are critical to realizing the green development of power system as they consume large-scale renewable energy, optimize the allocation of social energy, improve the comprehensive investment and utilization efficiency of energy, and reduce pollution emissions. Thus, problems such as power system stability, new energy consumption, and power grid scheduling will be encountered when higher requirements are inevitably proposed for the power generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of smart grids.

Studies are urgently needed on the stability mechanism as well as the prevention and control measures for the safe operation of smart grids, mining the flexible resources, maintaining the reliable power supply, and designing a reasonable power market and carbon market mechanism. Based on this, a smart grid construction policy can be formed to advance the consumption of renewable energy and achieve the development of both high-carbon power systems and low-carbon or zero-carbon power systems via improving the efficiency of energy production, transmission, storage, conversion, and consumption. This Special Issue invites theoretical and empirical studies on the following themes, although other relevant topics will also be considered:

• Smart grid contribution to sustainable energy economy and environmental development;
• Grid planning with a high proportion of renewable energy access;
• Smart grid construction planning for low-carbon and zero-carbon operation;
• Carbon emissions and carbon monitoring technologies for smart grids;
• Smart grid operation control technology for renewable energy consumption;
• Metering, protection, and control systems in smart grids to improve efficiency;
• Construction of reasonable electricity market and carbon market mechanism;
• Carbon reduction technology in power system;
• Smart grid construction policies promote renewable energy consumption.

Prof. Dr. Xiangyu Kong
Prof. Dr. Jidong Wang
Guest Editors

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• smart grid
• renewable energy
• green development
• carbon emission
• power market
• policy suggestion
• power system
• control technology