*Editorial* **Situational Awareness for Smart Distribution Systems**

**Leijiao Ge 1,\*, Jun Yan <sup>2</sup> , Yonghui Sun <sup>3</sup> and Zhongguan Wang <sup>1</sup>**


#### **1. Introduction**

In recent years, the accelerating climate change and intensifying natural disasters have called for more renewable, resilient, and reliable energy from more distributed sources to more diversified consumers, resulting in a pressing need for advanced situational awareness of modern smart distribution systems. The continuous connection of distributed generation, energy storage, and renewable energy to the grid also enriches the power supply while introducing new consumption patterns and pressures to the power systems.

Modern situation awareness for the smart distribution systems is based on a holistic, panoramic view of the entire operating environment, including the power supplies and the user behaviors, to provide comprehensive perception, comprehension, and prediction for the system. While advanced situational awareness has been widely used in military, transportation, justice, and other fields, it has also become an enabling technology following the digitization and informatization of society.

In this Special Issue, we present ten recent studies on a wide range of topics in the situation awareness for smart distribution systems.
