Special Issue on Reliability and Resilience for Distributed and Intelligent Energy Systems

Published 11 December, 2025

Introduct:

The accelerating deployment of distributed and intelligent energy assets, including virtual power plants (VPPs), community-shared energy storage, electric vehicle (EV) fleets, and data centers, is reshaping the topology and operation of modern power grids. These assets not only enhance system flexibility and efficiency, but also deepen the interconnections between physical infrastructure, communication networks and computational platforms. In such a coupled environment, ensuring reliability and resilience cannot be achieved solely via traditional power system methods.

Reliable grid operation under high penetration of distributed intelligent resources requires advanced coordination and control. EV charging infrastructure, data-centre loads, VPPs and shared storage must engage in grid-interactive control, resilient scheduling and adaptive management. At the same time, the networked nature of information and control layers demands protection against disturbances ranging from extreme weather and equipment faults to cyber-attacks and communication failures. Intelligent algorithms, data analytics, digital-twin modelling and cross-layer optimization are emerging as key enablers for proactive, self-healing and secure energy system operation.

This Special Issue provides a cross-disciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners to present recent advances in modelling, optimization, control and analytics for power systems that integrate distributed and intelligent assets within a cyber-physical framework. The goal is to advance the next generation of energy systems that are secure, adaptive, efficient and resilient, bridging power engineering, communications, information science and intelligent computation.

Topics of interest for this call for papers include but are not limited to:

  • Coordination and resilient operation mechanisms of distributed intelligent resources, such as VPPs, community shared energy storage, EV fleets, and data centers, within power grids
  • Reliability optimization and grid-interactive control strategies for EV charging infrastructures
  • Reliability-oriented scheduling, energy management strategies for data centers in power systems
  • Reliability modeling, analysis, and enhancement methods for power systems and grids under high penetration of distributed and intelligent energy assets
  • Resilience planning, restoration, and risk-aware operation under extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and multi-domain cascading failures
  • Fault-tolerant, adaptive, self-healing, and secure control strategies for handling physical disturbances (e.g., component failures, extreme weather) and cyber disturbances (e.g., communication delays, cyberattacks)
  • AI- and data-driven approaches for reliability and resilience assessment, including anomaly detection, health prediction, and risk forecasting
  • Cross-layer optimization of energy systems, communication networks, and computation platforms to enhance the overall resilience of cyber-physical energy systems
  • Digital-twin-based frameworks for situational awareness, modeling, and validation, including hardware-in-the-loop testing, co-simulation, and experimental platforms
  • Secure transactive mechanisms, market coordination, and cross-layer energy interaction for resilient operation of intelligent cyber-physical energy systems
  • Benchmark systems, simulation platforms, and field demonstrations for evaluating the reliability and resilience of cyber-physical energy systems

Submission Instructions:

Please read the [Guide for Authors ] before submitting. All articles should be [submit online], please select [Reliability and Resilience for DIES] on submission.

Important Dates:

  • Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026
  • Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026
  • Published (expected):August 2026

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