Climate Change in Power and Energy Systems: Challenges, Innovations, and Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

The urgency of addressing climate change is widely recognized, compelling the research community to take action towards building a more sustainable and resilient society. There is a two-way relationship between climate change and energy systems as climate change affects energy infrastructure (such as electrical power grids and buildings), and an energy system, in turn, contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, mitigation actions in this sector are both essential and urgent. Addressing the issues related to energy systems requires an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach connecting disciplines such as power and energy engineering and the environmental science.

In support of the Sustainable Development Goals SDG 7 and SDG 13 (clean energy and climate action), this Special Issue aims to investigate the following: (1) the impacts of climate change, extreme weather events (such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, wildfires, and storms), global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, digitalization, and climatic indices on electrical power and energy use, peak electrical loads, power grid planning, and building energy planning; and (2) the developments, technology and strategies, such as energy systems (or heating and cooling systems), needed to limit or mitigate the rate of climate change and create climate-resilient electrical power and energy systems that can withstand climate-related shocks.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited, the following to:

• An analysis of impacts of climate change, extreme weather events (such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, wildfires, and storms), global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and climatic indices on electrical power and energy consumption, peak electrical loads, power grid planning, building energy planning, energy infrastructure resilience, demand-side energy management, and energy efficiency.
• Investigating the affection mechanisms of renewable energy systems involving resources such as wind, solar, hydrogen, bioenergy, biomass, geothermal energy, and hydropower due to climate changes.
• Technologies and solutions for electrical power and energy systems for both power grids and buildings against climate changes.
• Electrical power and energy system solutions for the decarbonization of transportation (road, rail, air, and pipeline), buildings, and industries.
• Applications of technologies such as quantum computing, blockchain, Internet of Thing (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) in climate resilience building and the decarbonization of electrical power and energy systems.
• The climatic effects of digitalization on various parts of energy systems such as grids, buildings, power plants (particularly wind and photovoltaic), etc.
• Environmental assessments (via methods such as life cycle assessments) of different solutions and intervening actions such as information and communication technology (ICT) solutions, emerging technologies, heat pumps, etc.
• An assessment of the impact of sustainable heating and cooling solutions such as heat pumps, fourth- and fifth-generation heating and cooling systems on climate change.
• The deployment of refrigerants with low global warming potential in heating and cooling systems.
• A review (mini and survey) papers covering the state of the art of the literature on the two-sided impacts of climate change and electrical power and energy systems.

Dr. Younes Mohammadi
Dr. Boštjan Polajžer
Dr. Shoaib Azizi
Dr. Anjan Rao Puttige
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• global warming
• summer and winter temperatures
• extreme weather events
• electrical power
• energy systems
• renewable energy systems
• building energy efficiency
• artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning
• renewable energy resources
• digitalization
• environmental assessment
• sustainable heating and cooling solutions
• heat pumps and refrigeration systems using natural refrigerants

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