International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

The International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (IJEPES) publishes high-quality and original research that advances the modelling, analysis, planning, operation, control, optimization, protection, and cyber-physical integration of contemporary and future electrical power and energy systems. The journal focuses on transmission and distribution networks, AC/DC hybrid grids, power electronics applications, distributed and autonomous energy systems, renewable energy integration, electrification technologies, and the computational and data-driven tools that enable secure, reliable, resilient, flexible, and sustainable power networks.

IJEPES publishes original papers, short contributions as well as selected review articles by invitation and/or approval of the Editor-in-Chief. IJEPES encourages publication of themed special issues. Proposals for review articles and special issues are welcome for consideration by the Editor-in-Chief. The following list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather to indicate topics that fall within the journal purview:

1. Power System Stability, Dynamics, and Control

• Small-signal and transient stability

• Advanced control methods for transmission and distribution grids

• Wide-area monitoring, protection, and control

• Oscillation analysis and damping control

• Power system dynamics and simulations, including electro-magnetic transients (EMT) and electro-mechanical transients

• Technologies for real-time dynamic security assessment, situational awareness, prevention of power system blackouts and approaches for power system restoration

• Modeling and mitigation of new dynamics introduced by inverter-based resources

2. Power System Planning

• Long-term and mid-term power system planning

• Resource adequacy and generation expansion planning

• Transmission and distribution expansion planning

• Stochastic, robust, and chance-constrained planning methods

• Planning under high uncertainty (e.g., renewables, extreme events)

• Integrated system planning

3. Power System Operation and Electricity Markets

• Economic dispatch, unit commitment, and optimal power flow

• Real-time and day-ahead system operations

• Ancillary services, market design, and pricing mechanisms

• Market-based integration of renewables and storage

• Operational reliability, security assessment, and risk-based operation

• Economics of distributed energy resources and system flexibility

• Demand response and market participation mechanisms

4. Smart Grids, Microgrids, DERs Grid Integration and Cyber-Physical Power System Security

• Smart grid architecture and control

• Microgrid modeling, optimization, control, and protection

• Integration and coordination of DERs (PV, storage, EVs, flexible loads)

• Active distribution networks and virtual power plants

• Advanced distribution management systems

• New concepts of self-healing and resilient power systems

• Demand-side management and demand response programs

• Advanced metering, communication infrastructures, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) integration

• Cyber-physical energy system modeling, security and resilience

5. Renewable Energy Grid Integration

• Grid integration of large-scale wind, solar, and hybrid renewable energy resources

• Grid-forming and grid-following inverter technologies

• Forecasting techniques for variable renewable energy resources

• Stability and control challenges due to high renewable penetration

• Harmonics and power quality issues and solution methods

• Hybrid renewable–storage systems

• Grid enhancing technologies

6. Power System Protection

• Protection of transmission and distribution systems

• Protection coordination in networks with high DER penetration

• System Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS) - special protection schemes and remedial action schemes

• Protection challenges with inverter-based resources

• Adaptive and data-driven protection schemes

• Fault detection, diagnosis, and location

7. Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems

• HVDC and FACTS devices for grid integration

• Grid-interactive converters and controls

• AC/DC hybrid grids and supergrids

• Power-electronics-dominated power system characteristics

• Stability and control of converter-dominated power systems

8. Data Analytics and AI/Machine Learning for Power Systems

• Electric grid foundation models and applications

• Machine learning for system security and stability assessment, prediction, and control

• Physics-informed machine learning and scientific machine learning for grids

• Big Data analytics for grid sensing, PMU/AMI data, and event classification

• Digital twins for transmission, distribution, and microgrids

• Reinforcement learning for control, dispatch, and DER coordination

• Probabilistic and statistical learning for uncertainty quantification

• Machine learning-based cyber-physical security and anomaly detection

• Scalable computational methods and high-performance computing for power system analytics

9. Modeling and Reliability of Future Energy Systems

• Integrated energy systems

• Reliability assessment, probabilistic modeling, and risk analysis

• Resilience modeling for extreme weather and contingency scenarios

• Electrification impacts on future grid topology and demand

• Planning and control of distributed and grid-scale energy storage

• Multi-energy system modeling and sector coupling

The mission is to provide a leading international platform for disseminating innovative research, theoretical developments, computational methods, and engineering technologies that shape the future of electric power systems. The journal promotes interdisciplinary work spanning power engineering, optimization, data science, AI, power electronics, cyber-physical systems, and energy economics to support secure, reliable, resilient, flexible, and sustainable electricity infrastructures worldwide.

This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy).

Hints: The journal focuses on system-level challenges not individual component levels. Some out-of-scope paper examples are listed here but this is far from complete:

• Topics dealing with solar PV, solar generations, wind generation, energy storage at the component level are out of scopes. Their integration and interactions with power systems are within the scope.

• Techno-Economic analysis is out of scope and better suited for Applied Energy or Energy Conversion and Management.

• Papers focuses only at local building level, EVs or EV chargers, and local DERs without considering the interactions with power systems are out-of-scope.

• Local renewable energy system design and optimization are out-of-scope. They are better suited for Applied Energy or Energy Conversion and Management.

• Energy conversion and generation are out-of-scope but good for Applied Energy or Energy Conversion and Management.

• Mechanical components and systems are out-of-scope.