Sustainable Development and Optimisation of Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Energy is at the forefront of the global sustainable development agenda. The key challenges are expanding universal access to a clean, affordable, and reliable energy supply, which remains a fundamental policy goal for every country. Globally, there is widespread support for the adoption of low-carbon technologies and renewable energy resources, which is gradually moving the world towards a more sustainable ecosystem. These profound changes in the energy landscape and the transition from a traditional, rigid utility power grid towards a smart digital infrastructure are beginning to transform the way we generate, supply, and consume energy, and deliver and use energy services. Consequently, energy research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, involving socio-economic, environmental and technological factors that must be addressed holistically.

Addressing these global challenges requires new and innovative solutions to deliver a broader range of technologies for the integration, management, coordination, and optimisation of energy systems, and their associated generation, conversion, and storage technologies. This will bring together state-of-the-art modelling, management and operation of power systems, renewable energy systems, energy storage technologies and state-of-the-art optimization models, distributed control, energy analytics and artificial intelligence techniques.

This Special Issue aims to disseminate the latest research in these interdisciplinary areas related to sustainable development and optimisation of energy systems.

We invite submission of original, high-quality articles and review papers in the following areas:

Clean Energy Transitions and Energy Security: State-of-the-art, reviews and case studies

• Energy related socio-economic and environmental impacts.
• Electricity markets, policies, regulatory systems.
• Sustainable and resilient smart cities.
• Greenhouse gas removal technologies.
• Circular economy.

Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage: Modeling, Design, Control and Optimisation

• Renewable and alternative energy sources.
• AC/DC microgrids, smart grid technologies.
• Advanced power electronics, converter technologies and topologies for renewable energy systems integration.
• Electric vehicles, components, charging management and grid integration.
• Energy analytics, evolutionary algorithms, computational intelligence and machine learning.
• Demand response, peer-to-peer energy trading mechanisms.
• Energy Storage Systems, battery technologies, hybrid storage systems, grid integration and ancillary services.
• Energy harvesting, circuits and devices.
• Hydrogen as a fuel for industrial processes and heating.

Reliability, Security, and Resilience of Electric Power and Energy Systems

• Power quality, power system security and stability.
• Cyber and physical security of electric power grids.
• Wide area systems (WAMS, WAMC), PMU technologies, advanced communication technologies.
• Condition monitoring, fault detection and classification, asset management.

Dr. Mouloud Denai
Dr. Mustapha Hatti
Prof. Dr. Azeddine Draou
Dr. Pedram Asef
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.