The new urban power grid supporting the operation of the main grid needs to rely on the virtual power plant and other media to regulate the massive distributed power, microgrid, and load resources with different characteristics, and the power market mechanism is an important means for the virtual power plant to effectively regulate the massive resources inside. However, the market mechanism and operation key technology of the virtual power plant for the new urban power grid still face many challenges: on the one hand, the existing power market rules and trading mechanisms, the price formation mechanism it is difficult to fully reflect the flexible value and multi-dimensional attributes of distributed resources, and the access mechanism, trading mode and benefit distribution system for the power plant to participate in the spot, power auxiliary services and capacity and other markets need to be improved. On the other hand, key technologies such as cross-regional, multitype resource aggregation modeling and state perception, multi-time-scale collaborative scheduling and risk prevention and control, metering settlement and credit evaluation still need to be broken through
In view of this, in-depth exploration of the power market mechanism and key operating technologies that support the new urban power grid has important significance for building a new power system that is clean, low-carbon, safe, reliable, flexible, and efficient, breaking the institutional constraints in the process of urban energy transformation, activating the potential value of distributed energy and flexible load participating in the power market. The editorial department of China Electric Power specially invited Yang Xiuyu, Deputy Director of the of Electric Power of Northeast Electric Power University, Professor Ye Yujian of Southeast University, Associate Professor Zhang Rui of Northeast Electric Power University, Deputy Director Cong Ye of the Energy Price Research Center of the Modern Electric Power Research Institute of North China Electric Power University, and Associate Professor Mo Jingshan of Northeast Electric Power University to jointly serve as guest editors, organize and plan the special column "Power Market Mechanism and Key Operating Technologies Supporting New Urban Power Grids", aiming to build a high-level academic exchange and transformation platform the field of virtual power plants and new urban power grids, gathering cutting-edge research results in the design of power market and price formation mechanism, operation control and engineering demonstration of power plants, demonstrating innovative theoretical methods and new application practices of multi-resource aggregation and flexible dispatch, promoting deep integration of industry, education, and research and cross-regional collaborative, and jointly promoting the large-scale application and high-quality development of virtual power plants in new urban power grids. We sincerely welcome experts, scholars, researchers, and engineering technicians related fields to actively contribute.
Topics of Submission (including but not limited to)
1）The Mechanism and Key Technologies of Virtual Power Plant Carbon Trading Market Supporting the New Urban Power Grid
2）Green certificate trading mechanism and key technology of virtual power plant supporting new urban power grid
3）The market mechanism and key technology of virtual power plant auxiliary services supporting the new urban power grid
4）Virtual power plant green power direct connection mechanism and key technology supporting new urban power grid
5）Coupling mechanism and key technology of multi-market for virtual power plant supporting new urban power grid
6）The mechanism and key technology of the electricity price formation related to virtual power plant supporting the new urban power grid
7）Assessment technology for the regulation capability of virtual power plant in smart grid
8）Virtual power plant power imbalance technology for new urban power grid
9）Virtual power plant technology for power imbalance in smart grid
10）New urban power grid virtual power plant source-network-load-storage aggregation modeling and operation optimization technology
11）Multi-time scale synergistic dispatch technology of virtual power plant in smart grid
Publication plan for column papers
Submission deadline: August 31, 2026.
Publication time: in the second half of 2026, it will be published in installments as a column.
Column manuscripts enjoy the green channel treatment for review by this journal, and once accepted, a notice of acceptance will be issued as soon as possible, and will be priority for online first publication.
Submission requirements
1.Requirements for paper writing. The word count should be around 6000 words, using Word layout, and the format should refer to the paper of "China Electric Power" (the latest paper template can be downloaded from the official website of China Electric Power); the English translation of the title, author, institution, abstract keywords and references should be provided.
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Submission Method Login
China Electric Power website: http://www.electricpower.com.cn, register the author's username and password, submit online, and select or indicate column "Virtual Power Plant Power Market Mechanism and Key Operation Technologies Supporting the New Urban Power Grid". Contact person:
1.Editorial Office of China Electric Power Yang Biao, Telephone: 010-66603802, Email: 53765000@qq.com;
2.东北电力大学，杨修宇，邮箱：yangxiuyu2011@163.com；
3. Southeast University, Ye Yujian, Email: yeyujian@seu.edu.cn;
4. Northeast Electric Power University, Zhang Rui, Email: zhangrui@neepu.edu.cn;
5. North China Electric Power University, Cong Ye, Email: yecong0315@vip.sina.com;
6. Northeast Electric Power University, Mo Jingshan, Email: mojingshan@neepu.edu.cn.
Introduction of the guest editor
Yang Xiuyu, Associate Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering of Northeast Electric Power University, Associate Professor, a council member of the Jilinvincial Society of Artificial Intelligence, a council member of the 7th Council of the Jilin Provincial Society of Electrical Engineering, a member of the Organizing Committee the Second National University Electrical and Electronic Engineering Innovation Competition, and a youth editor of "Power Generation Technology". He has been engaged in the research of renewable energy power system planning integrated energy system optimization operation and planning, and power market for a long time. He has presided over and participated in 2 national scientific research projects and 7 horizontal projects, more than 20 journal papers in SCI/EI, including 1 F5000 paper, and authorized 6 national invention patents. He has won first prizes of the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
Ye Yujian, a young leading professor and doctoral supervisor at Southeast University, a national youth high-level, an honorary lecturer at Imperial College London, a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Chairman of the IEEE System, Man and Cyberics Society (IEEE SMC) Nanjing Chapter, and the Deputy Director of the Macro and Micro Integration Simulation Innovation Laboratory at Southeast University. His main research directions include modeling,, and analysis of low-carbon urban energy-transportation-information Internet, application of new generation big data and artificial intelligence technology in the field of electricity and energy, and-level unified power market modeling and analysis adapting to the new power system. In recent years, he has presided over more than 20 national natural science fund projects, Jsu provincial natural science fund youth projects, and scientific and technology cooperation projects with the headquarters of State Grid/South Grid, the five major power generation groups, Huawei, Tencent and other enterprises. He has participated in more than 10 international scientific research projects such as the EU "Horizon 2020" as a backbone, with a investment of more than 40 million pounds. He was selected into the list of the top 2% of the world's top scientists by Stanford University, and published more 30 high-level papers as the first or corresponding author in Nature sub-journals, Proceedings of the IEEE and other top journals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IEEEactions series journals, with a cumulative impact factor of more than 400, of which 4 were selected as ESI highly cited papers; many papers were selected into the Academic Papers of China's Fine Science and Technology Journals (F5000), China Association of Science and Technology Science and Technology Journal Bilingual Communication Project,. He is currently an editor of several international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Applied Energy, and Control of Modern Power Systems, and a theme editor of IET Smart Grid. In the past three years, he has won awards such as the China Electric Power Outstanding Youth and Technology Talent Award, the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award, the IEEE PES China Professional Chapter Federation Outstanding Youth Engineer Award, the China Invention Association Entrepreneurship Award Innovation Award First Prize (ranked 1st), the China Energy Research Society Outstanding Youth Energy Science and Technology Worker Award, the Huawei "Value Spark Award, the Geneva International Invention Exhibition and the BRICS International Invention Exhibition Silver Award (ranked 1st), and the Jiangsu Automation Society Science and First Prize (ranked 2nd).
Zhang Rui, Associate Professor at Northeast Electric Power University, high-level talent in Jilin Province, graduate student supervisor, native of Jinzhai, Anhui, obtained his doctorate from Harbin Institute of Technology, with Professor Yu Jilai as his supervisor. He has hosted one subproject of the National Key Research and Development Program, one surface project of the Jilin Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and one project of the Jilin Provincial of Education; he has also hosted seven projects including State Grid Corporation of China and China Electric Power Construction Group; participated in one standard; published one monograph; published more than20 papers in SCI/EI and Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, and authorized more than 30 national invention patents. He serves as a youth editor for the journalsDigital Twins and Applications", "Carbon Neutrality and New Power System", and "Electric Age", a youth expert and outstanding reviewer for the journal "Power", a director of the Nuclear Energy Sub-Committee of the IEEE PES, a member of the IEEE, a senior member of the Chinese Electric Power Engineering Society, a member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, a member of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a member of the Chinese Power Society, among others. He has served as a reviewer for more than 10 domestic and foreign journals, including IEEE Transactions series journals, Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, Power Technology, and Journal of Solar Energy. He has won awards such as the National "Silk Road" Smart Measurement Ecological Development Competition Special Prize, the Provincial First in the Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National Second Prize in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "Energy Innovation Competition", the Chinese Society for Engineering's Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE PES Outstanding Paper First Prize, and others. Under his guidance, his students have won more than 20 national and awards in competitions such as the National Graduate Mathematical Modeling Competition, the China Graduate Double Carbon Innovation and Creativity Competition, the University Student Challenge Cup Competition, the Xingxin Cup Competition, the Provincial Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the University Electrical and Electronic Engineering Innovation Competition, and the University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program.
Cong Ye, Deputy Director of Energy Network Price Research Center, Assistant Researcher, and member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants at the Modern Electric Power Research Institute of North China Electric Power University. He has been engaged in the research of electricity price theory and application, power market, and other fields for a time. He has hosted and participated in more than 20 national key research and development programs, research projects of the National Development and Reform Commission, and horizontal topics and special research the field of electricity prices. He participated in the drafting and revision of documents such as "Pricing Measures for Transmission and Distribution Prices of Provincial Power Grids"FGJG [2020] No. 101), "Pricing Measures for Transmission Prices of Regional Power Grids" (FGJG2020] No. 109), and "Pricing Measures for Transmission Prices of Inter-Provincial and Inter-Regional Special Projects (FGJG [2025] No. 1490). He also participated in the second regulatory cycle of the National Development and Reform Commission's supervision and the cost supervision and examination of transmission and distribution pricing, as well as the 2022 agent power purchase assessment. He has published more than 20 papers EI/SCI indexed journals, been authorized for 3 national invention patents, and his related research results have won the second prize in the eighth "Xue Muqiao" research award of the China Price Association in the paper category.
Mo Jingshan, Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor of Northeast Electric Power University, and a Class E High-level Talent in Jil Province. He has been engaged in research on automatic voltage control, planning and optimization operation of power systems with a high proportion of renewable energy for a long time. He is a reviewer for more than 10 domestic and foreign journals such as IEEE Transactions, Power Grid Technology, and China Electric Power. In recent years, he has presided over and in one National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund project, five horizontal projects such as the Key Science and Technology Research and Development Plan Project of State Grid Corporation of China for New Power System, published more than 20 SCI/EI papers. He has been authorized for 13 national invention patents. His related achievements have won one third prize of Science and Progress of State Grid Corporation of China and one high-quality academic paper of China Energy Research Institute for Clean Energy Development Research.
