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Editorial to the first International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE 2011)
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Energy Procedia
Energy ProcediaEnergy 00 (2011) 000–000 Procedia 12 (2011) 1 www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia
Editorial to the first International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE 2011) Energy and environment are the primary concern of modern society, due to the increasing importance of sustainable energy and environment issues. Global energy demands are expected to grow by 60% over the next 25 years. This has the potential to cause a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change, which is a serious and long-term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe. Hence, powering economic growth using clean and renewable energy is one of the most challenging topics in development today. In the past three years, smart grid has seen tremendous progress and has been continuing to be an ever expanding area of importance. The Smart Grid would allow integration of diverse generation and storage options, reduce losses, improve efficiencies, increase grid flexibility, reduce power outages, allow for competitive electricity pricing, allow for integration of electric vehicles and overall become more responsive to market, consumer and societal needs. Hence, the smart grid and clean energy technologies are becoming one of the key drives in modern energy sector and the hotspot in research society. This Special Issue presents selected papers from the 2011 International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE 2011) held on Sept 27-30, 2011 in Chengdu. A total of 145 papers are included in this special issue. The included papers are categorized into 7 topics: Smart Grid Technologies, Photovoltaic Systems and Process-Related Issues, Wind Power Systems and Related Issues, Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Clean and Renewable Energy, Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution, Energy System Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance. The collection of papers not only acknowledges the latest world-wide technologies in clean power generation systems and smart grid systems, but also provides significant amount of instructive and constructive ideas for the development in future clean energy smart grid systems. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our colleagues in the disciplines who have kindly volunteered in the review process. Without timely contributions by the reviewers, this initiative would not have been realizable. It is our hope that this special issue will result in increased collaboration among researchers in these areas and help facilitate exploration of novel cross-disciplinary ideas for their fields. Guest Editors: Qi Huang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Jason Z. Kang, Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, China © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of University of Electronic © 2011and Published by Elsevier Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ICSGCE 2011 Science Technology of ChinaLtd. (UESTC).
1876-6102 © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.10.001
Energy Procedia
Energy ProcediaEnergy 00 (2011) 000–000 Procedia 12 (2011) 1 www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia
Editorial to the first International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE 2011) Energy and environment are the primary concern of modern society, due to the increasing importance of sustainable energy and environment issues. Global energy demands are expected to grow by 60% over the next 25 years. This has the potential to cause a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change, which is a serious and long-term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe. Hence, powering economic growth using clean and renewable energy is one of the most challenging topics in development today. In the past three years, smart grid has seen tremendous progress and has been continuing to be an ever expanding area of importance. The Smart Grid would allow integration of diverse generation and storage options, reduce losses, improve efficiencies, increase grid flexibility, reduce power outages, allow for competitive electricity pricing, allow for integration of electric vehicles and overall become more responsive to market, consumer and societal needs. Hence, the smart grid and clean energy technologies are becoming one of the key drives in modern energy sector and the hotspot in research society. This Special Issue presents selected papers from the 2011 International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE 2011) held on Sept 27-30, 2011 in Chengdu. A total of 145 papers are included in this special issue. The included papers are categorized into 7 topics: Smart Grid Technologies, Photovoltaic Systems and Process-Related Issues, Wind Power Systems and Related Issues, Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Clean and Renewable Energy, Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution, Energy System Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance. The collection of papers not only acknowledges the latest world-wide technologies in clean power generation systems and smart grid systems, but also provides significant amount of instructive and constructive ideas for the development in future clean energy smart grid systems. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our colleagues in the disciplines who have kindly volunteered in the review process. Without timely contributions by the reviewers, this initiative would not have been realizable. It is our hope that this special issue will result in increased collaboration among researchers in these areas and help facilitate exploration of novel cross-disciplinary ideas for their fields. Guest Editors: Qi Huang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Jason Z. Kang, Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, China © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of University of Electronic © 2011and Published by Elsevier Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ICSGCE 2011 Science Technology of ChinaLtd. (UESTC).
1876-6102 © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.10.001