Session Title: Electricity Markets for Smart Cities: Trading Models, Integration, and Resilience
The transition toward smart and green cities is transforming the way electricity is generated, traded, and consumed. Rapid urbanization, the proliferation of distributed renewable energy resources (DERs), and the electrification of transportation require new market mechanisms that ensure efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability. Electricity markets are at the core of this transition, serving as the platform where advanced control strategies, renewable energy integration, demand response programs, and energy storage participation converge. This special session aims to bring together researchers and policymakers to explore innovative electricity market designs tailored for smart cities. It will highlight the role of electricity markets in enhancing grid resilience, improving urban sustainability, and accelerating the low-carbon energy transition. Key themes include dynamic pricing mechanisms, demand-side flexibility, peer-to-peer (P2P) and community-based trading models, as well as cross-sectoral coordination between electricity, transportation, and environmental systems. This session will also investigate policy incentives and regulatory frameworks that support the integration of renewable energy, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and distributed energy resources in urban contexts.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Market design for smart cities: dynamic pricing, real-time markets, and ancillary service mechanisms
- Peer-to-peer and community energy trading frameworks
- Integration of renewable generation, storage, and demand response in market operations
- Electricity markets for electric vehicle charging and mobility services
- Cybersecurity, data privacy, and blockchain applications in energy trading
- Regulatory frameworks and policy incentives for urban energy transition
- Computational intelligence and AI-driven market forecasting, optimization, and control
Special Session Chairs
Jing Qiu
The University of Sydney, Australia
Jing Qiu (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He obtained his B.Eng. degree in electrical and control engineering from Shandong University, China, M.Sc. degree in environmental policy and management, majoring in carbon financing in the power sector, from The University of Manchester, U.K., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2008, 2010 and 2014 respectively. His areas of interest include power system planning, data-driven energy market analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted energy pricing and trading strategies. He is the Editorial Board Member of IET Renewable Power Generation and Energy Conversion and Economics.
Jiafeng Lin
The University of Sydney, Australia
Jiafeng Lin received his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, China, in 2020, and the M.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2022, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. His research interests include power system operation and planning, electrical vehicles, power system security, electricity markets and renewable energy integration, etc.