Editorial: Advances in distributed energy resources aggregation for the low carbon future

To realize low carbon energy systems, a large number of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including energy storage systems, electric vehicles, and flexible loads have been integrated into power grids, from transmission systems to distribution networks. However, system reliability is facing severe challenges due to the intermittency of distributed energy resources. In recent years, with the digitalization of power systems, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely deployed. Meanwhile, as a huge amount of real-time information about the system and end-user status become available, distributed energy resources aggregation draws increasing attention from both academia and industry. It is expected to facilitate the operation of low-carbon energy systems. Therefore, research on the enhancement of distributed resource aggregation capability has been continuously funded by various national research projects. New principles, technologies, and methods to help enhance distributed resource aggregation capability have emerged, especially positive progress has been made in the following aspects: 1) renewables and distributed energy, 2) low-carbon and energy efficiency, 3) scheduling strategy and optimization.