Editorial IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems: Special Section on Advanced Power Electronics Techniques for Smart Grid Applications

The Advent of modern power electronics has brought tremendous impact on emerging power systems. In an emerging smart grid, as the number of inverter- and converter-based devices increases to more than hundreds of thousands, it is rather intuitive that the state-of-the-art technical solutions and industry practices will no longer be sustainable. The combination of power electronics and advanced control technologies serve as the key enabler of a wide range of smart grid applications. While tremendous progress has been made in advancing the standalone power electronics technologies, much less attention has been paid to bridging the gap between traditionally disjoint research areas – power electronics, power systems, and intelligent control – ultimately facilitating the vision of 100% carbonneutral energy systems come to fruition. There is a growing interest in the concepts of power electronics-enabled power systems around the world. This special section includes two high-quality papers, which cover the trending topic on the control strategy for inverters that are essential for Smart Grid applications.