Service Platforms in Smart Grid

Dear colleagues,

Smart grids can provide unprecedented opportunities to grid operators, power plant operators, power retail sellers, prosumers, DER owners, EMS providers, DR businesses, customers, and various actors in power markets. They can allow for flexibilities in energy distribution, peer-to-peer energy exchange, opportunistic use of time-variant renewable energies, to just name a few. Most such opportunities will be delivered to smart-grid beneficiaries in the form of service. For example, a prosumer can find an energy-buyer through an energy-exchange market service that matches sellers to buyers; DER owners can be dynamically grouped and form virtual power plants before offering their combined energy supply to the DER market; optimization, resource allocation and scheduling, peer matching, grid reliability, security: the list of potential services is endless. This Special Issue focuses on the provisioning of such smart-grid services in light of platforms. Platforms provide a generic, seamless, and convenient ecosystem to the applications run by actors in order to deliver services to them for various purposes. This Special Issue specifically seeks contributors on the following issues but is not limited to the following:

• Design of service platforms for certain types of smart-grid services;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of flexibility services;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of virtual power plants;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of energy distribution;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of grid reliabilities;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of security and privacy protection;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of renewable energy sources;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of energy exchange market;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of electrical transportation services;
• Service design, algorithms, or other aspects of artificial intelligence services;

Security and privacy issues of service platforms, services, and applications in smart grids.

Prof. Minho Shin
Guest Editor

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• smart-grid service
• service platform
• energy service architecture
• smart grid applications