V2G/X Integration in Smart Cities: Advancing Sustainable Urban Energy Systems
This special issue explores the integration of Vehicle-to-Grid/Everything (V2G/X) technologies into smart cities to advance sustainable urban energy systems. It seeks interdisciplinary research on optimizing bidirectional energy flows between transportation and grid systems, enhancing renewable energy integration, and improving grid resilience. Topics span energy management (e.g., renewable integration, grid stability), market mechanisms (e.g., dynamic pricing, EV-user incentives), AI-driven optimization, and cyber-physical infrastructure coordination. Submissions will highlight V2G/X’s role in electrified transportation networks, distributed energy storage, and urban resilience planning, emphasizing socio-techno-economic synergies. The issue seeks transformative solutions to align urban energy systems with net-zero goals through bidirectional EV-grid-community interactions.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Energy Management with V2G/V2X: Including demand response, voltage and frequent regulation, and renewable energy integration, etc.
- Market Dynamics/Mechanisms with V2G/V2X: Exploring economic models for energy arbitrage, EV charging strategies, and stakeholder engagement, etc.
- Artificial Intelligence applications in V2G/V2X: AI based methodologies for complex system modeling and optimization, etc.
- V2G/V2X in eMobility and Transportation electrification: Investigations into shared EV systems, consumer preferences and behavior analysis, broader mobility solutions, and urban transport policies, etc.
- V2G/V2X in Cyber-Physical Systems: Focusing on V2X communications, cybersecurity, and coordination of computing resources and EV infrastructure, etc.
- V2G/V2X in Urban System Resilience: Including resilience planning and restoration strategies for integrated energy-transportation networks, etc.
- V2G/V2X in Energy Nexus: Related to urban decarbonization, optimal planning across energy, transportation and marketing, and socio-economic analysis, etc.
Guest Editors
Changxu Jiang, College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, China
Zhenjia Lin, International Centre of Urban Energy Nexus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yitong Shang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Xiaoying Shi, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kon