Flexible Resources Investment in New-Type Electric Power Systems for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 1972
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Interests: energy economy and environment; energy investments; electricity market and carbon market
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Dear Colleagues,
Many countries around the world are promoting clean and low-carbon energy transformation, and renewable energy continues to maintain rapid growth. The high proportion of renewable energy accessed at electric power grids puts forward higher requirements for system safety, power supply, and renewable energy consumption. In recent years, frequent extreme weather events have accelerated the characteristic changes between supply and demand, which has posed great challenges to the operation of the power grid, including safe and stable power supply and renewable energy consumption in the electric power system. In the future, this problem is likely to become more serious. Therefore, it is required for the electric power system to operate in a more flexible way, which can cope with the uncertainty of renewable energy generation, ensure the safe and stable supply of electricity, and the efficient consumption of renewable energy.
In recent years, although the improvement in flexibility in the electric power system has received some attention, the development and utilization of flexibility resources have fallen very short of expectations. The issue of insufficient flexibility of the capacity of resources in the electric power system has become apparent. With the continuous increase in the proportion of renewable energy power generation connected to the grid, it is necessary to strengthen the investment in flexible resources to ensure the safe, stable, and economic operation of new-type electric power systems. How to reasonably allocate and effectively invest in the flexible resources of the high proportion of renewable energy-based electric power systems has become an urgent demand for building new-type electric power systems, which has become an important issue to ensure the sustainable development of electric power systems with the proportion of renewable energy.
This Special Issue focuses on investments in flexible resources in new-type electric power systems for sustainable development. The purpose of this Special Issue is highly consistent with the scope of Sustainability.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The current development and issues of flexible resources investments in new-type electric power systems.
- Flexible resources evaluation in new-type electric power systems.
- Flexible resources investments at the power supply side.
- Flexible resources investments at the power grid side.
- Flexible resources investments at the power demand side.
- Coordinate investments for flexible resources at power supply side, power grid side, and power demand side.
- The market mechanism for flexible resources investment and development.
- Other related topics.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sen Guo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible resources investment
- flexible resources evaluation
- market mechanism
- new-type electric power system
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