Dear Colleagues,

Electricity grids around the world are undergoing major changes, including the scale of planned intercontinental connections for exploiting rich renewable energy sources, the scale of distribution networks absorbing increasing amounts of rooftop photovoltaic generation, and microgrids to increase reliability. Coupled with enabling technologies such as power electronics and affordable sensors, this has led to the need and opportunity to move away from worst-case design and operation of networks to more optimal real-time control based on measurement-driven models. However, much work remains in finding the best way to use these new enabling technologies. What network models lead to tractable optimization problems?  What are the trade-offs between the cost of sensors, the accuracy of models, and the cost of optima. This Special Issue is dedicated to these and the many other question around the modeling and optimization of power systems and related algorithms.  

Dr. Lachlan Andrew
Guest Editor

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• mathematical models for integration of intermittent renewable energy
• demand response
• optimal power flow/unit commitment/economic dispatch
• optimization formulations of network planning
• optimization based data-driven models
• optimal management, or dynamical systems models, of microgrids