Climate Resilience and Reliability Enhancement in Smart Grids and Power Systems

Modern power systems are undergoing a rapid transition toward renewable-rich, digitalized, and highly interconnected smart grids. The increasing integration of wind power, solar photovoltaics, electric vehicles, distributed energy resources, and flexible loads provides important opportunities for low-carbon transformation, but also introduces new uncertainty, variability, and operational complexity. At the same time, climate change is reshaping the external environment of power systems. Long-term changes in temperature, wind speed, solar radiation, precipitation, and hydrological conditions may affect renewable energy availability, load patterns, asset performance, and system adequacy. More frequent and severe extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, and cold waves, further challenge the reliability and resilience of smart grids and energy infrastructure. These developments call for new planning, operation, and control methods that explicitly consider climate-related risks and adaptation requirements.This Research Topic aims to provide a timely platform for recent advances in climate resilience and reliability enhancement of smart grids and power systems. The main goal is to bring together methodological, technological, and practical studies that address how future power systems can remain secure, reliable, resilient, and adaptive under climate change and high renewable penetration. Contributions are expected to investigate climate-aware planning models, reliability and resilience assessment methods, extreme-weather impact modeling, uncertainty quantification, renewable resource variability, distributed flexibility coordination, and intelligent operation strategies. Particular attention will be given to approaches that integrate power system engineering with climate information, optimization, data analytics, artificial intelligence, digital twins, and market mechanisms. We also encourage studies on climate adaptation strategies, long-term infrastructure planning, and resilience-oriented operation under evolving climate conditions. By collecting these contributions, this Research Topic seeks to support the development of smart grids that can not only achieve low-carbon operation, but also withstand, respond to, adapt to, and rapidly recover from climate-induced disturbances.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:• Climate-aware power system planning and operation;• Reliability assessment under renewable uncertainty and climate variability;• Resilience evaluation, adaptation, and restoration under extreme weather events;• Data-driven climate and renewable energy scenario generation;• Energy storage planning, operation, and control for climate-resilient power systems;• Electric vehicles, demand-side flexibility, and distributed energy resource coordination;• Microgrid resilience and adaptive operation under climate-induced disturbances;• Cyber-physical security and resilience of smart grids;• Electricity market mechanisms for flexibility and resilience services;• Artificial intelligence, digital twins, and advanced analytics for climate-aware decision support;• Long-term climate adaptation strategies for future power systems and energy infrastructure.This Research Topic welcomes Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Perspective Articles, and Case Studies related to climate resilience and reliability in smart grids and power systems. Studies combining modeling, algorithm development, practical system applications, field demonstrations, and policy or market analysis are particularly encouraged. Contributions from interdisciplinary perspectives, including power systems, climate science, energy economics, optimization, artificial intelligence, and data analytics, are also welcome. Topic editors: Chenjia Gu, Yi Zhou, Zelong Lu, Weilun Wang, Zhengyang Hu Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/82689/climate-resilience-and-reliability-enhancement-in-smart-grids-and-power-systems