Sustainability of the High-Renewables Smart Grids

Dear colleague,

Smart grids constructed based on renewable energy sources (RES) and the Internet of Energy (IoE) are often seen as a solution for the world's pressing issues, such as tackling global climate change, helping the decarbonization of the economy, increasing the penetration of renewables into people's daily lives, fostering the electrification of transport, etc.

Contrary to the conventional energy-saving approaches, smart grids offer sustainable solutions that cover the entire energy value chain from energy generation through to its transformation to the end consumers. They employ modern ICTs and the Internet of Energy (IoE), which offer AI-based solutions for matching producers with consumers (who recently have started merging into becoming "prosumers") in a design similar to the sharing economy. This Special Issue will focus on studying the balance between energy production and energy consumption in future sustainable energy systems. It will explain how the high-renewables smart grids of the future will allow us to create the world that we would like in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. This Special Issue will study these aspects from various angles: economic, ecological, historic, social, as well as entrepreneurial.

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Prof. Dr. Wadim Strielkowski
Guest Editor

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• renewable energy
• sustainable development
• smart grids
• Internet of Energy
• green economy
• sustainable development goals