Dear Colleagues,

During the last decade, the power system has entered a new technological era where the methods for electricity production and consumption have been digitalized. In this respect, the power system should increase its use of appliances such as smart meters, controllers, sensors, relays, etc. that can communicate with each other, make feasible decisions based on the grid requirements, and operate using the big data taken from these smart devices to provide smooth grid operation. The operation challenges to using these appliances for the Smart Grid need to be highlighted, and more attention is required from experts in industry and academia to fill the gap in our knowledge regarding these.

The main goal of this Special Issue is to pay special attention to digitalization application on energy research and to bring researchers, scientists, engineers together on a common platform to demonstrate novel ideas to make use of digitalization in energy research. Prospective authors are invited to submit their articles with original contributions for review and possible publication in this Special Issue.

In addition, the authors of the papers which will be presented at ICMEPS2021 (www.icmeps.com) that we are organizing are invited to submit their extended versions to this Special Issue of the Journal Electronics after the conference final date of 18th June 2021. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular research or review articles, with at least a 50% extension of new results. There are no page limitations for this journal.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Peer-to-peer energy trading in microgrids;
• Renewable energy grid-interfacing challenges;
• Microgrid and nanogrid;
• Battery and its integration using digitalization;
• Forecasting and optimization applications for energy systems;
• Power quality issues for power systems;
• Power electronics for renewable sources.

Dr. Ahmet Onen
Dr. S. M. Muyeen
Dr. Mohammed Elgendy
Dr. Jose L. Martinez-Ramos
Guest Editors

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• digitalization
• optimization in power systems
• AI-based tool
• machine learning
• forecasting
• peer-to-peer energy trading