Special Section on Local and Distributed Electricity Markets

Driven by the goals of clean energy and zero carbon emissions, power industry is undergoing significant transformations. The rapid growth diverse distributed resources (DERs) at grid edge such as rooftop photovoltaics (PVs) electric vehicles transforming traditional centralized management to a decentralized, bottom-up, localized control paradigm. Establishing local distribution-level electricity markets provides an effective solution managing large amounts small-scale DERs. New regulations recent FERC Order 2222 in U.S. open door DERs wholesale markets. Through coordinating with transmission-level market, prosumers can trade flexibility locally each other meanwhile provide energy, ancillary services bulk grid. During this transition, there are many new technical challenges address, calling for innovative ideas interdisciplinary research promising direction. Advanced information communication technologies (ICT) needed, key enabler, development practical implementation distribution Research into strongly interdisciplinary, involving state art engineering, economics, digital/information technology. A broad spectrum contributors from universities, industry, laboratories policy makers sought develop present solutions that will facilitate advance applications implementations uncover values