Advanced Energy Storage Systems under Complex Operating Conditions: Performance, Safety, Stability, and Adaptive Operation

The rapid deployment of renewable energy, electrified transportation, smart grids, and flexible energy infrastructures has significantly increased the importance of advanced energy storage systems in future low-carbon energy systems. Batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen-based storage, thermal energy storage, and hybrid energy storage technologies are increasingly used to improve system flexibility, operational efficiency, and renewable energy utilization. However, these technologies are expected to operate under increasingly complex and dynamic conditions, including fluctuating renewable generation, variable load demand, fast charging and discharging, wide temperature variations, grid disturbances, and multi-energy interactions. These operating conditions introduce highly coupled electrochemical, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and control dynamics that directly affect system performance, operational stability, and energy management efficiency.Recent advances in power electronics, advanced sensing, digital twins, artificial intelligence, multi-physics modeling, and intelligent optimization have created new opportunities for improving the operation and management of advanced energy storage systems. Nevertheless, significant challenges remain in coordinated control, adaptive energy management, operational optimization, and real-time decision-making under highly dynamic operating environments. This Research Topic aims to bring together recent advances in modeling, monitoring, control, optimization, and practical engineering applications for advanced energy storage systems operating under complex conditions. Particular emphasis will be placed on intelligent operational strategies that improve system efficiency, flexibility, stability, and adaptive capability across diverse energy applications.This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Perspective, Methods, and Case Study articles addressing theoretical advances and engineering applications related to advanced energy storage systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:• Advanced battery technologies, supercapacitors, thermal energy storage, hydrogen-based storage, and hybrid energy storage systems; • Intelligent operation and coordinated control of energy storage systems; • Adaptive energy management and optimal scheduling strategies; • Multi-physics modeling of electrochemical, thermal, electrical, and mechanical behaviors; • Artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, and data-driven optimization for energy storage operation; • Fast charging, high-power operation, and adaptive charging control; • Coordinated operation of energy storage systems in renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, microgrids, and integrated energy systems; • Energy storage station operation, dispatch, and engineering applications; • Operational flexibility, stability enhancement, and intelligent decision-making under dynamic operating conditions. Contributions integrating energy storage technologies, power electronics, intelligent control, optimization, artificial intelligence, and engineering implementation are particularly encouraged. Studies should clearly demonstrate advances in improving the operational efficiency, flexibility, stability, intelligent management, or practical deployment of advanced energy storage systems. Topic editors: Chun-ling Wu, Jingbo Wang, Liheng Li, Xin Lai Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/84504/advanced-energy-storage-systems-under-complex-operating-conditions-performance-safety-stability-and-adaptive-operation