Smart Energy Systems for a Low-Carbon Future

The transition toward low-carbon energy systems is reshaping modern smart grids. Increasing renewable integration, climate uncertainties, and the coupling of diverse sectors are creating new challenges for system planning and operation. Advances in digitalization, energy system modelling tools are enabling new approaches to managing interconnected energy networks, positioning smart energy systems as a central research area for supporting reliable, sustainable and equitable energy transitions.Goal:This Research Topic aims to highlight emerging research directions in smart energy systems that support the low-carbon transition. By bringing together advances in system integration, flexibility, and resilience, it seeks to promote new perspectives on the planning and operation of interconnected energy infrastructures. The initiative fosters collaboration across engineering and system-level analysis, contributing to the development of more reliable, efficient, and adaptable energy systems that enhance system performance, accessibility, and equitable outcomes under evolving technical and environmental challenges.Scope and Information for Authors:This Research Topic welcomes contributions on smart energy systems supporting the low-carbon transition. Relevant themes include renewable integration, sector coupling, integrated electricity–heat–hydrogen systems, energy flexibility and resilience, system reliability, digitalization, and advanced energy system modelling. We invite original research articles, reviews, and perspectives addressing planning, operation, optimization, and technological solutions for interconnected energy infrastructures. Interdisciplinary studies bridging engineering and system-level analysis are particularly encouraged. Topic editors: Qikun Chen, Tong Zhang, Weiqi Hua Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/78284/smart-energy-systems-for-a-low-carbon-future