Special Issue on Recent Advances for Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems

POWER and energy systems are lifeline infrastructures to civilization. Their stable operation and security of supply are essential for the daily life of the people. Typically, they are characterized by a central generation infrastructure using large-scale power plants. The electricity is transported via long distance transmission lines on high voltage levels, and distributed via distribution grids to customers on medium and low voltage levels. However, we are facing ongoing advances in renewables and energy storage systems, along with innovative information, communication and control technologies, computational intelligence, as well as power electronics. Thus, there are opportunities and challenges emerging in the design, planning and operation of these assets. Nowadays, there is a clear trend to a more distributed system architecture with more local energy consumption.