Flexibility-Oriented Operation of Integrated Power and Gas Networks and Low-Carbon Technologies Under Clean Energy Transition

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 Head of Electrical Networks Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University. He was the General Director of the Iran Research and Technology Institute for Electric Machines for three years. His research interests include power system simulation, operation, planning, and control of power systems, renewable energy in power systems, and smart grids. Mohammad Mehdi Amiri is a is a Ph.D student in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and a researcher at the Electrical Networks Institute of the Shahid Beheshti University. He got his B.Sc. degree from the Razi University of Kermanshah and his M.Sc. degree from the Shahid Beheshti University. His research is mainly focused on the interaction of gas/hydrogen and Electricity Networks from operation perspective. Hossein Ameli got his PhD degree from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering department at Imperial College London. His research is mainly focused on the interaction of gas/hydrogen and electricity networks from operation and planning perspectives. In this context, the modelling is carried out for e.g., GB energy system in 2030 and 2050, where a significant part of the heat and transport sector should be electrified. Furthermore, cost-effective transition to a lower-carbon energy system achieved by the employment of flexibility options (i.e., demand side response, electricity storage, flexible gas plants, multi-directional compressors, and interconnections) in the integrated operation and planning of different energy vectors (mainly gas/hydrogen, heat and electricity) is investigated. He is a Contributing Author in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG 3 and contributed to many scientific papers as well as research projects related to the energy industry, such as projects for the Committee of Climate Change (CCC) and Ofgem. 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, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, founder and head of the Laboratory of Multi-Carrier Energy Networks Modernization at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the field of modern multi-energy networks at the Smart Energy Systems Lab of the University of Tabriz for two years. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Power Engineering from the University of Tabriz, all with honors. He has (co)authored more than 50 technical journal and conference articles, 10 books, 28 book chapters, and 10 national and international research projects in the field. Dr. Daneshvar is a member of the Editorial Board of the Energy and Built Environment Journal and the Early Career Editorial Board of the Sustainable Cities and Society Journal. He also served as the guest editor for the Sustainable Cities and Society, and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments journals. Moreover, he serves as an active reviewer with more than 120 top journals, 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, Integrated Multi-Energy Systems, Grid Modernization, Electrical Energy Storage Systems, Sustainable Cities and Society, Microgrids, Energy Hubs, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Digital Twin, and Optimization Techniques and AI. Meysam Qadrdan is a Professor of Energy Networks and Systems, and a RAEng Industrial Fellow in Cardiff University, UK. He conducts fundamental and applied research into the modelling and analysis of integrated energy systems (electricity, gas, hydrogen, heat). He collaborates with National Grid Gas, as his Industry Host for the RAEng Fellowship, to study the role of hydrogen in achieving net-zero in the Great Britain. Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, security and economics of energy systems. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry, governments and regulatory bodies about the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon energy future. He is currently Director of the joint Imperial-Tsinghua Research Centre on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, Leading Author in IPCC WG 3, Member of OFGEM RIIO-2 Challenging Group, Member of the UK Smart System Forum, Member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition, and Member of the Joint EU Programme in Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance.

• 1. Flexibility for the coupled structure of gas and electricity networks2. Operational and optimization strategies for net-zero carbon gas and electricity networks3. Intelligent-oriented methods to assess and improve the flexibility of integrated power and gas networks4. A conceptual introduction and review of the decarbonization of integrated energy networks5. Investigation and feasibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) in decarbonization of integrated gas and electricity networks6. Decoupling of emissions, economic growth, and solutions for carbon neutrality in coupled gas and electricity networks7. Applicability of negative emission technologies (NETs): Challenges and their contribution to low-carbon gas and electricity networks8. Net-zero energy supply, oxy-turbine power cycles, gas carbon capture and storage (CCS), and hydrogen production technologies9. Transactive energy: How decentralized renewable energy can support decarbonization of integrated energy structure: A case study10. Hydrogen interactions in the decarbonization of the power and gas coupled infrastructure: Real-world case studies11. Role and value of compressor station in facilitating cost-effective energy system decarbonization: A case study