Power Systems Optimization and Sustainable Energy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026 | Viewed by 599
Special Issue Editor
Interests: power system reliability; fault detection; event detection; real-time power system health monitoring; renewable energy integration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue “Power Systems Optimization and Sustainable Energy” of the journal Sustainability.
The unprecedented and continuous growth in all sectors of power systems, including generation, transmission, and distribution, introduces many design and operational challenges. Optimization has been used to solve many of these problems in power system planning, operation, and control, all the while accounting for increasing levels of uncertainty. These uncertainties stem from the presence of a large number of renewable energy resources with intermittent and uncertain power generation profiles. Traditionally, large-scale system optimization techniques have been used to solve the optimal power flow problem (OPF). Recently, these techniques have been extended to integrating renewable energy resources and dispatchable loads onto the power system. Methods for solving optimization problems include linear programming, nonlinear programming, integer programming, convex programming, dynamic programming, artificial intelligence and heuristics, just to name a few. While most problems seek a globally optimal solution, many of the methods used today can only guarantee local optimality. New advancements in dynamic programming and artificial intelligence are making progress in the search for global optimality, but there is still much room for improvement.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest advancements in all aspects of power system optimization, including innovations in modelling, algorithms, and solution techniques. The focus will be on novel methods for optimizing power system control, reliability, flexibility, and security, including data-driven algorithms and emerging technologies. Both theoretical and practical studies on these topics are welcome.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Power system optimization;
- Power system reliability;
- Electricity markets;
- Renewable energy integration;
- Power system monitoring and control;
- Data-driven approaches for power system operation.
Dr. Xichen Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- distributed energy resources
- power system operation
- reliability
- integration
- optimization
- sustainable energy
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