Journal Guide

The world must move toward a more sustainable energy future, and the development of technologies that facilitate this for transport, heating, and power systems is crucial. This journal encourages papers on any aspect and scale of technologies for energy generation and/or utilization that decrease the impact of that production and use, from the laboratory to commercial applications. Papers on:•technology development/improvement,•integration,•regulation, standards and policy are within the scope of the journal, as well as case studies.Technology assessments estimating and discussing metrics such as scale of application,size and weight per unit of energy output, economics, efficiency, and state of technology development are particularly welcomed, for both individual or comparative systems.The main fields of focus are generation, storage, and conversion; energy efficiency and distribution; and policy and economics. Energy fields include, but are not limited to, carboncapture and storage, wind, bioenergy, solar/PV, hydro, geothermal, and conventional fuels, along with system analysis, environmental issues, energy harvesting, and building design. Papers that incorporate more than one of these topics, either in a unified system or through a comparison of these fields, are encouraged.

SEGAN is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry from across Energy, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and Energy Policy/Regulation.

SEGAN publishes original articles and short communications, as well as selected review articles by invitation and/or approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Proposals for review articles and special issues should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief for consideration.

SEGAN particularly welcomes papers on the following topics:

• Theoretical developments in planning and operation of electrical and energy systems
  – Definition and application of computational methods for stochastic optimization
  – Applied optimization and mathematical programming
• Data analysis and computation for power and energy systems
  – Data-driven modelling techniques for power and energy systems
  – Machine learning, statistics and computational intelligence
  – Big Data analytics
• Integrated operation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in electrical and energy systems
  – ICT integration in electrical and energy systems for monitoring and control
  – Modeling of cyber-physical energy and communication systems
  – Demand-side management and demand response: definition of control schemes and protocols
  – Advanced metering infrastructures
• Modeling and analysis of modern and future electrical and energy systems
  – Integrated electrical and thermal grids
  – Active distribution networks and virtual power plants
  – Massive integration of volatile renewable energy resources in smart grids
  – Integrated control of electrical transmission and distribution networks
  – Electrical systems security and reliability in systems with large-scale volatile resources
  – New dynamics and stability issues in power systems
  – Control and planning of centralized and distributed energy storage
• New components for future electrical and energy systems
  – Coupled AC/DC supergrids
  – High-Voltage DC technologies
  – Coupling of energy conversion systems with electrical and energy grids
• Sustainability assessment of electrical and energy systems
  – Policy, regulation and economics of modern electrical and thermal networks
  – Development of the Smart City concept towards the integration of energy, transportation (e.g. electric vehicles) and ICT networks.

Thermal Engineering (Teploenergetika) is the most widely read Russian publication concerned with thermal energy and engineering. The articles published analyze the current state and perspectives of energy development, design and operation of power engineering equipment such as that at thermal and nuclear power stations, energy conservation and pollution control, the theoretical fundamentals of heat engineering, and non-traditional heat sources.

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