Smart Grid Outlook in Europe: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 16773
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart grids; energy infrastructure; electricity markets and regulation; renewable energy; energy system integration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on Smart Grid Outlook in Europe: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities.
Europe is set to become the first climate neutral continent in the world by 2050. Along with the necessary expansion of Renewable Energy Sources, this will necessitate a paradigm swift on how energy networks will be planned and operated, as well as new business models in both the regulated and liberalised segments of the energy system. Smart Grids is one of the key areas of implementation of the twin green and digital transition, deployment of innovative technologies, and development of new business models. At the same time, they pose new challenges regarding the associated socio-technical relations, and appropriate regulatory supervision.
With the above in mind, the international journal Energies is going to have a Special Issue covering the current state-of-play of smart grids deployment with a focus on Europe. The Special Issue is open to all contributions related but not limited to the following related topics:
- Technical and operational challenges
- Socio-economic considerations for the deployment of smart grids
- Market schemes (e.g. flexibility markets)
- Regulatory challenges and policy implications
- Challenges and opportunities of smart grids deployment for network operators
- Energy communities
Dr. Julija Vasiljevska
Dr. Stamatios Chondrogiannis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Smart Grids
- Energy system integration
- Flexibility markets
- Prosumers and active consumers
- Regulation of energy networks
- Modernisation of electricity grid
- Business models
- Demand-side participation
- Integration of distributed and renewable generation
- Integration of energy storage
- Integration of electric vehicles
- Collective and citizen-driven energy actions
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