Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are becoming widespread worldwide thanks to fast technology progress and decreasing cost. Considering the development of new technologies for different power-to-energy ratios and engineering applications, BESSs could play a strategic role towards a net-zero energy future. In this regard, different opportunities are emerging for BESSs to participate in different markets and provide grid services, which allows development of new business cases, including in behind-the-meter applications and hybrid plants co-located with renewables.

This Special Section aims to address technical, economic, commercial, regulatory, and environmental aspects of the most recent developments in BESSs. Articles that deal with real-world applications and have industry co-authors are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include:

1. Different types of battery technology and their system-level impact on the grid and energy markets

2. Technical and commercial performance of utility-scale and behind-the-meter batteries

3. Role of utility-scale and behind-the-meter batteries for system decarbonization

4. Modelling of and real-world experience with BESSs equipped with grid forming/grid following inverters, virtual synchronous machines, etc.

5. BESS-based virtual power plants, “cloud” energy storage, and innovative storage aggregation and sharing models

6. Community and neighbourhood batteries

7. Role of batteries in microgrids

8. Comparison of batteries with other forms of storage

9. Techno-economic value of batteries in future markets: system services, capacity markets, etc.

10. Role of BESSs in providing security, reliability and resilience

11. Business models and real-world business cases

12. Energy policy and regulatory aspects to unlock battery value

Submission Guidelines

The manuscripts could be submitted on https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/mpce

The article templates can be downloaded from http://www.mpce.info/ch/reader/view_news.aspx?id=20150519040134001

Guidelines for Authors can be downloaded via

http://www.mpce.info/uploadfile/news_images/mpce/2022-10-27/MPCE%20Guidlines%20for%20Authors.pdf

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2023

Acceptance Notification: December 31, 2023

Date of Publication: March 31, 2024

Guest Editors-in-Chief 

Prof. Pierluigi Mancarella, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and The University of Manchester, UK 

Prof. Nikos Hatziargyriou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 

Prof. Chongqing Kang, Tsinghua University, China

Guest Editors Assoc. 

Prof. Xiaomeng Ai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Assoc. 

Prof. Sijie Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 

Prof. Mohamed Elmoursi, Khalifa University, UAE 

Prof. Gooi Hoay Beng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

Prof. Pavlos Georgilakis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece Asst. 

Prof. Guannan He, Peking University, China 

Dr. Eduardo Alejandro Martinez-Cesena, The University of Manchester, UK 

Prof. Yasser A.-R. I. Mohamed, University of Alberta, Canada 

Dr. Rodrigo Moreno, University of Chile, Chile, and Imperial College London, UK 

Prof. Hrvoje Pandžić, University of Zagreb, Croatia 

Dr. Mathaios Panteli, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 

Prof. Minyang Sun, Zhejiang University, China Assoc. 

Prof. Yue Xiang, Sichuan University, China Assoc. 

Prof. Ning Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editorial Advisor to Editor-in-Chief, and Vice Editors-in Chief 

Prof. Yusheng Xue, State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, China 

Prof. Bikash Pal, Imperial College London, UK 

Prof. Chi Yung Chung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China 

Prof. Antonio Gomez-Exposito, University of Sevilla, Spain

About Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) 

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