Witnessing a New Wave: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning [Guest Editorial]

The articles in this special section focus on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in the power systems market. Power engineering professionals are now seeing another wave of AI, which is arguably the second wave in the power industry and the third wave in the AI community since the 1940s. The technological advancement in AI has been making it a universal solution to just about everything. Compared to their human counterparts, in some applications, the AI-based solutions are more accurate, faster in execution, and have a higher tolerance level for tedious jobs and extreme environments.