Infrastructure Complexity welcomes submissions to the new thematic series on Urban Smart Grids.
This call for papers is intended to stress the need for viewing the role of smart grids in future energy systems in an urban environment as part of the designing, managing and operating qualitatively new complex socio-technical systems. The desire is to innovate and deploy new technology and design a new regulatory framework so that the objectives to contribute significantly to a sustainable world will be met.
Authors are encouraged to focus on new technical, regulatory and economic paradigms essential for making the most out of these smart grid technologies. Emphasis is on modeling, simulations, analysis, management and institutional design of such complex future systems. At the same time, papers addressing important public values as security of supply (including reliability), efficiency and affordability, privacy aspects etc are also invited. We solicit papers that not only focus on the power sector in urban smart cities, but also on other infrastructure domains as gas and water sector.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Strategic planning of the cities and smart grid planning
- The energy-efficient renovation of cities
- Risk, reliability and security analysis of urban smart grids
- New vulnerabilities as well as protection and security measures for impregnable networks with resilience as a core principle
- Economics of smart grids
- Institutional design for smart grids
- Market design and regulatory issues
- Energy-generating cities and the development of smart grids as a precondition
- Home energy management
- Development of strategies to exploit large scale distributed storage, e.g. by the utilization of electric vehicle batteries
- Designing institutions to safeguard infrastructure reliability
- Coherence between the technical and institutional design
- Investigation of costs, risks and benefits associated with smart grid technologies
- Business modeling and techno-economic studies to propose smart grid market models
Submission instructions:
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors for Infrastructure Complexity. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the Infrastructure Complexity submission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct thematic series please select the appropriate section in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the Thematic Series on Urban Amsrt Grids. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.
Lead guest editor:
Zofia Lukszo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Submissions will also benefit from the usual benefits of open access publication:
- Rapid publication: Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient
- High visibility and international readership in your field: Open access publication ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article
- No space constraints: Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage
- Authors retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license: articles can be freely redistributed and reused as long as the article is correctly attributed
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