TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - the mathematics of energy systems
AU - Mancarella, Pierluigi
AU - Moriarty, John
AU - Philpott, Andy
AU - Veraart, Almut
AU - Zachary, Stan
AU - Zwart, Bert
N1 - Funding Information:
Data accessibility. This article has no additional data. Authors’ contributions. All authors contributed equally. Competing interests. We declare we have no competing interests. Funding. The guest editors thank the Isaac Newton Institute and its staff for their excellent hosting and support of the MES programme, and acknowledge also the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant no. EP/I017054/1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s).
PY - 2021/7/26
Y1 - 2021/7/26
N2 - The urgent need to decarbonize energy systems gives rise to many challenging areas of interdisciplinary research, bringing together mathematicians, physicists, engineers and economists. Renewable generation, especially wind and solar, is inherently highly variable and difficult to predict. The need to keep power and energy systems balanced on a second-by-second basis gives rise to problems of control and optimization, together with those of the management of liberalized energy markets. On the longer time scales of planning and investment, there are problems of physical and economic design. The papers in the present issue are written by some of the participants in a programme on the mathematics of energy systems which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge from January to May 2019-see http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mes. This article is part of the theme issue 'The mathematics of energy systems'.
AB - The urgent need to decarbonize energy systems gives rise to many challenging areas of interdisciplinary research, bringing together mathematicians, physicists, engineers and economists. Renewable generation, especially wind and solar, is inherently highly variable and difficult to predict. The need to keep power and energy systems balanced on a second-by-second basis gives rise to problems of control and optimization, together with those of the management of liberalized energy markets. On the longer time scales of planning and investment, there are problems of physical and economic design. The papers in the present issue are written by some of the participants in a programme on the mathematics of energy systems which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge from January to May 2019-see http://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mes. This article is part of the theme issue 'The mathematics of energy systems'.
KW - decarbonization
KW - energy markets
KW - energy transition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107789870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0425
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0425
M3 - Editorial
SN - 1364-503X
VL - 379
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
IS - 2202
M1 - 20190425
ER -
