Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Analysis, Control and Optimization of Energy Networks

Abstract

The deployment of new technologies, e.g., renewable generation and electric vehicles, is rapidly transforming power networks by blurring the previously distinct spatio-temporal scales that many traditional approaches rely on for designing, analyzing and operating power grids. Other energy systems, such as natural gas systems, are undergoing similar revolutionary transformations. This trend can be characterized as a disruptive surge in complexity that challenges design and operation, but also offers opportunities to deliver unprecedented efficiency and reliability.

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