Future Modern Distribution Networks Resilience

Mohammad Taghi Ameli received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Technical College of Osnabrück, Germany, in 1988, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is a Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering and the chair of Research Institute for Electrical Networks at Shahid Beheshti University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Research and Technology in Electrical industry (IJRTEI), since 2020. He was also the General Director of the Iran Research and Technology Institute for Electric Machines for three years. His research interests include operation, planning, and control of power and energy systems, integration of renewable energies to the energy system, and smart grids. Kamran Jalilpoor received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran, in 2018. He is currently working as a senior research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, SBU. He is the author of several top journal and conference papers in the field of distribution system resilience. His research interest is oriented to different aspects of power systems resilience, including catastrophe risk modeling, damage assessment, disaster response and recovery and optimization methods. Sasan Azad is a Ph.D candidate in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and a researcher at the Electrical Networks Institute at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. His main areas of interest are the security and voltage stability of power systems, smart grids, and electric vehicles. Mohammadreza Daneshvar is a Research Associate with the Smart Energy Systems Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tabriz. He is the editor of more than 40 journal and conference papers in the field of multi-energy systems, grid modernization, transactive energy, and optimizing the multi-carrier energy grids. He is the author and editor of three books with Springer, Elsevier, and Wiley-IEEE. He serves as an active reviewer with IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and IOS Press, and was ranked among the top 1% of reviewers in Engineering and Cross-Field based on Publons global reviewer database. His research interests include smart grids, transactive energy, energy management, renewable energy sources, multi-carrier energy systems, grid modernization, electrical energy storage systems, microgrids, energy hubs, machine learning and deep learning, blockchain technology, and optimization techniques. Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1967. He received the B.Sc. degree from Tabriz University (Iran) in 1990 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University (Iran) in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with Abbaspour Technical and Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran where he is currently an associate professor. During this period, he has had supervising more than 31 MSc and 7 PhD students while at the same time, he has had several important responsibilities such as Vice-Chancellor in Education of electrical department and Head of Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University. He also acted as the Senior Researcher for the Iran Power System Engineering Research Center (IPSERC), affiliated to Tarbiat modares University. He managed several national projects for the Iranian power grid. His research interests are distribution networks, power system planning, electric vehicles, and smart grids. Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, Ph.D., is a Professor with the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark. Before joining the University of Tabriz, he was a research associate at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary. He obtained MSc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology. His main research interests are renewable energies, microgrid systems, and smart grids. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical publications in his domain of interest, more than 30 book chapters, and 10 books. Miadreza Shafie-khah is a full professor and Scientific Director of the Energy Business eMBA at the University of Vaasa, Finland, and a visiting professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief or associate editor of several prestigious journals including the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. His main research interest is in demand response, decentralized electricity markets, and electric vehicles.

Part 1: A conceptual introduction and review of power system resilience 1. Introduction and literature review of resilience concept in power systems 2. Resiliency challenges and opportunities in transiting from traditional networks to future modern energy grids 3. Risk and vulnerability assessment in power systems: A comprehensive review of challenges and outlook 4. A literature review of resilience metrics in power systems and their differences with reliability indices 5. A survey on the role of coordinating electricity and gas distribution systems for enhancing the power grid resilience 6. Power systems operation and planning: a literature review on smart resilience enhancement strategies Part 2: Modelling of vulnerability and resilience evaluation indices and cost-benefit analysis 7. Modelling of natural phenomena and extreme events in the study of power systems resilience 8. Vulnerability and risk modelling methods: A comprehensive framework from the resilience perspective 9. Resilience metrics: Assessment of distribution systems performance 10. Decision-making approach for power system resilience upgrades based on cost-benefit analysis 11. Cyber-constrained optimal power flow model for resilience enhancement of modern energy networks Part 3: Infrastructure and operational strategies to improve power system resilience 12. Robust grid hardening strategies for improving the resilience of electricity systems 13. Resiliency-oriented sustainable models for future renewable-based power systems 14. Improving power system resilience with mobile energy storage and electric vehicles 15. Resilient energy management: networked microgrids and renewable energy resource 16. Application of recovery techniques to enhance the resilience of energy systems 17. The role of machine learning in improving distribution systems resilience 18. Future perspectives and research areas for improving the power system resilience