RESILIENCE ENGINEERING FOR SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS

CFP - A special issue of Sensors Journal

Over the last few decades, the planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption have been a growing concern globally. Smart energy management is the systematic coordination of the procurement, conversion, transmission, distribution, and use of energy to meet user, environmental, and economic requirements. In this context, the key drivers include resource conservation, climate protection, and cost savings, while the users have permanent and affordable access to the energy they need. Traditionally, smart energy management has been tackled separately in different sectors (e.g., transportation, electricity generation, built environment, industry, agriculture), each with its own specific constraints, requirements, and design solutions. In contrast to these single-sector solutions, smart energy systems adopt a holistic, systemic approach that aims to include, integrate, and coordinate technologies and stakeholders from/within multiple sectors to provide a feasible solution for each sector, as well as for the overall energy system. Smart energy systems are playing an increasingly broad and critical role in many countries to support sustainable development. One requirement of these smart energy systems is that they are resilient to any imposed damage or irregularities and continue to function at the required performance level. Resilience engineering is a holistic systems engineering approach that provides the models and methods to design and analyze systems for resilience.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together innovative developments and applications of resilience engineering for smart energy systems. We welcome both research papers addressing new insights and experience papers discussing the lessons learned in practice. Articles may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Modelling approaches for the resilience of smart energy systems;
• System architecture design for resilience engineering of smart energy systems;
• Application of system of systems for resilient smart energy systems;
• Tools for resilient smart energy systems;
• Obstacles to resilience of smart energy systems;
• Methods and process models for resilience engineering of smart energy systems;
• Empirical evaluation approaches for resilience engineering of smart energy systems;
• Resilient engineering of smart grids and microgrids;
• Critical infrastructures and smart energy systems;
• Cross-sectoral integration of smart energy systems;
• Workflow patterns for resilient smart energy systems;
• Business modelling approaches for resilient smart energy systems;
• Metrics for resilient smart energy systems.

Prof. Dr. Bedir Tekinerdogan Dr. Tarek AlSkaif Dr. William Hurst Prof. Dr. Cagatay Catal Guest Editors

See for submission details:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/resilience_engineering_smart_energy_systems