Electric Power Equipment Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

In the past few decades, the power industry has developed rapidly, and UHV power systems have increased in large numbers with respect to commercial operations in China. In response to events such as environmental protection and global warming, the energy system has gradually changed from mainly fossil energy to new energy represented by wind, solar, and biomass energy. With the increase in the scale of power system and the transformation of energy utilization methods, more and more power equipment is used in operation, such as power transformers, gas-insulated switchgear, generators, and power electronics devices, and the sustainability requirements for power equipment are becoming stricter. The sustainable development of power equipment is mainly reflected in several dimensions: the use of more environmentally friendly materials to manufacture power equipment; the use of equipment state modeling to provide accurate assessment results for the equipment state in order to ensure long-term sustainable operation; the use of new manufacturing technology to ensure long-term reliability relative to new energy electrical equipment; and adopting new methods to provide efficient management and economic operation of electric power equipment, etc.

At the same time, the development of new technologies such as Big Data and artificial intelligence also provides new tools for the sustainable development of electrical equipment: utilizing Big Data in order to analyze and mine fault information contained in the equipment; providing early warning to ensure that the equipment does not have catastrophic accidents; and using artificial intelligence to identify the internal defects of the equipment and providing accurate early warning.

This Special Issue aims at attracting original high-quality papers and review articles focused on environmental friendly electrical equipment, condition assessment of power equipment, new energy equipment, efficient management and economic operation for power equipment, data analysis, and data-driven applications for power equipment sustainability. We willingly welcome all researchers to consider technological advances in electric power equipment sustainable development technologies, and, further, to contribute to sustainable growth of the power system.

Prospective authors may submit contributions reslated to (but not limited to) the following:

• Development of environmentally friendly and low-carbon electric power equipment;
• Long-term operational sustainability of electric power equipment;
• Reliability and economy of new energy electric power equipment;
• Electric power equipment fault detection and condition assessment;
• Efficient management and economic operation of electric power equipment;
• Life cycle cost management for electric power equipment;
• Data analysis and data-driven applications for electric power equipment sustainability;
• Any subjects relevant to sustainability in electric power equipment

Dr. Junhao Li
Dr. Xutao Han
Guest Editors

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