Leveraging Market Mechanisms and Demand Side Flexibility Resource Complementarity Strategies to Address the Issue of Renewable Energy Consumption
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 23 March 2026 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electricity market and policy
Interests: electricity market and trading decision technology
Interests: integrated energy system planning and operation optimization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Renewable energy has become a key means for countries around the world to achieve green and low-carbon energy transformation. However, renewable energy generation has volatility, intermittency, and randomness, which are factors limited by the carrying capacity of the power system, leading to widespread problems in the consumption of renewable energy. The market mechanisms and demand-side flexibility resources complementarity strategies are important means to promote the consumption of renewable energy, and have become a hot topic of research for scholars.
In this Special Issue, we will exhibit original research articles that contribute to advancing renewable energy consumption technologies through innovative approaches including, but not limited to, the following:
- Policy incentive mechanisms to promote the consumption of renewable energy;
- Designs of electricity market operation framework and clearing models;
- Coupling mechanisms and optimization modeling of electricity markets, carbon markets, and green certificate markets;
- Modeling and optimization of the uncertainty of demand-side flexibility resources in new types of power systems;
- Modeling of integrated energy system planning and scheduling with demand-side flexibility resources;
- The game strategy of demand-side flexibility resources participating in electricity markets, green certificate markets, and carbon markets.
We particularly encourage submissions that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to improve the efficiency of optimizing model solving and formulating market decision-making strategies. By cultivating innovative and scalable theories and methods, this Special Issue aims to support the achievement of global goals for energy sustainability.
Dr. Peng Wang
Dr. Xiaofeng Xu
Dr. Liying Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- new types of power system
- electricity market
- green certificate market
- scheduling modeling
- game theory
- machine learning
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