Guest Editor(s)
Dr. Wenyang Deng
Email: dengwy@gdut.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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Research Interests: renewable energy integration, power system resilience, power flow optimization
Dr. Haiqing Cai
Email: caihq@csg.cn
Affiliation: China Southern Power Grid Electric Power Research Institute, Guangzhou, China
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Research Interests: power system resilience and simulation technologies
Dr. Siting Dai
Email: daist@gcu.edu.cn
Affiliation: Guangzhou City University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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Research Interests: risk assessment for electricity market derivatives, trading rules of renewable energy-based electricity, abnormal analysis of medium-to-long-term power market
Summary
The rapid deployment of large-scale renewable energy, particularly wind and photovoltaic power, is reshaping modern power systems at both the technical and economic levels. As renewable penetration continues to increase, system operation is becoming more dependent on power electronic interfaces, flexible resources, and coordinated control across generation, networks, loads, and storage. At the same time, high shares of variable renewable generation are raising new challenges for electricity market design, ancillary service procurement, system balancing, and the reliable provision of active grid support.
Beyond operational and market-related changes, the transition toward highly electrified and renewable-dominated power systems also raises important resilience concerns. Extreme weather events, cascading failures, and disruptions in interconnected urban infrastructure can amplify the consequences of power system disturbances, particularly in distribution networks that support essential public services. In this context, future power systems must be able not only to integrate renewable generation efficiently and participate effectively in electricity markets, but also to provide robust grid support and maintain resilience under both normal and extreme operating conditions.
This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research and review articles on active grid support, resilience, and the electricity markets of large-scale renewable energy systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interactions among renewable generation, market mechanisms, source-grid-load-storage coordination, power electronic technologies, distribution system operation, and the resilience of coupled infrastructure systems. The goal is to advance secure, flexible, economically efficient, and resilient low-carbon power systems.
We invite high-quality contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Electricity market design for high-renewable power systems
- Renewable energy participation in energy, ancillary service, and flexibility markets
- Pricing mechanisms, incentive schemes, and market-based coordination of flexible resources
- Source-grid-load-storage coordination for frequency regulation, balancing, and economic operation
- Active grid support from renewable energy plants, including voltage regulation, frequency response, and reserve provision
- Multi-timescale dispatch, forecasting, and optimization under renewable variability and uncertainty
- Real-time economic operation and ancillary service coordination in renewable-rich power systems
- Distribution system resilience under extreme weather and high-impact disturbances
- Risk assessment, vulnerability analysis, and cascading failure modeling in power systems
- Interdependent electricity infrastructures, including coupled electricity-water and other urban service systems
We also welcome contributions featuring rigorous modeling, market analysis, optimization, control design, resilience assessment, experimental validation, and real-world case studies. Review papers that synthesize recent advances in electricity market innovation, active support capabilities, and resilient operation of renewable-rich power systems are also encouraged.
Keywords
electricity markets, renewable energy integration, active grid support, source-grid-load-storage coordination, ancillary services, frequency regulation, economic operation, distribution system resilience
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