IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation
IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation
This is a fully on-line journal with four issues a year. This Transactions is a space where people who work on energy issues from the economics, engineering, and regulatory perspectives meet to develop better solutions. The Author Portal submission site is open.
Scope:
IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal disseminating relevant knowledge and developments in the organization and structure of rapidly evolving multi-energy supply and demand systems. It publishes articles on energy system frameworks, policies, and regulations, such as multi-tier energy market structures, pricing policies, and auction rules. The Journal promotes the decarbonization of supply, distribution, and demand in multi-energy systems, and drives robust and sustainable investments in resilient and green energy systems considering all stakeholders’ needs. Published articles are supported by detailed engineering, economic and policy analyses and assessments of the topics discussed, based on relevant principles, models, techniques and tools.
Paper Categories
Topics within the journal scope:
Energy Markets:
- Economics and assessment of energy markets
- Design, clearing, pricing and settlement of markets for energy, capacity, flexibility and ancillary services
- Interactions between markets
- Economics of renewables, demand response and storage
- Retail electricity markets
- Retail tariff design
- Peer-to-peer and local trading
- Market participation, market power and market monitoring
- Congestion management and redispatch
- Risk management
- Impact on energy markets of environmental policies such as constraints, emissions trading, and renewables support mechanisms
- Investments in market assets
- Bidding strategies
- Energy finance
- Emissions trading
- Water/energy nexus
Energy Policy:
- Policies of rural electrification, microgrids and rural development
- Net-zero economics and policy
- Energy, climate, and environmental justice
- Impacts of society-scale electrification on the electric power sector
- Incentives for system development
- Impact assessments of energy policies
- Multi-energy systems and market coupling
- Policies to support innovations in the energy sector
- Development of data and scenarios for system expansion
Regulation:
- Network cost allocation and tariff design
- Regulation of network monopolies
- Rate design and Incentive regulation
- Cost-benefit analysis of network investments
- Impact assessments of regulations
- Market power and market monitoring
- Transmission and distribution expansion and planning
- Integrated resource planning
- Economics of reliability and resiliency.
Examples of topics out-of-scope:
- Papers whose primary focus is the development of an analysis or optimization technique and address energy markets, policy, and regulation issues only in an incidental manner.
Peer Review
The articles in this journal are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual [PDF 1.3MB]. Each published article was reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a single-anonymous or double-anonymous peer review process. For a single-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. For a double-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors and the identities of the authors are not known to the reviewers. Articles will be screened for plagiarism before acceptance.
About resubmission of a rejected paper
Rejected papers should not be resubmitted without being substantially revised. After revision, rejected papers can be resubmitted no sooner than 3 months after the date of the rejection. A resubmitted paper will be treated as new submission and must adhere to the same page limit as any other newly submitted paper. If the paper is rejected for the second time, the paper cannot be resubmitted any more even if further modified. The authors must also indicate in the letter to the editor how the paper has been modified. Since the resubmitted paper is not treated as a revision, the authors should not include a separate document in which they address the comments of the reviewers. All modifications should be briefly stated in the letter to the editor. If the paper was rejected from one of the PES journals and the authors have revised the paper and resubmit it to another PES journal they must also indicate in the letter to the editor which journal the paper was submitted to originally and what was the reference number of the rejected paper.
Policy on papers published at PES financially sponsored conferences:
The Authors who have presented the paper(s) at the IEEE PES financially sponsored conference including PES General Meeting, PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (USA, Latin America, Europe, Asia), PES PowerTech and PES PowerAfrica are eligible to submit the extended version of their conference paper(s) to one of IEEE PES Transactions for consideration of publication. The extended paper requires at least 60% additional new material relative to the original conference paper and is subject to a regular review process of the respective PES Transactions. The original conference paper should be referenced in the extended journal paper and new contributions with respect to the conference paper clearly identified. The final decision for publication on the extended paper is made by the Editor-in-Chief of the respective journal.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington, USA
Power Engineering Letters Editor-in-Chief:
Rabih A. Jabr, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Editor-in-Chief at Large:
Nikos Hatziargyriou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation Associate Editors:
Rui Bo, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Kenneth Bruninx, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Qixin Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Javier Contreras, University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Constance Crozier, GA Tech, USA
Pengwei Du, ERCOT, USA
Yury Dvorkin, New York University, USA
Hossein Farahmand, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, USA
Ye Guo, Tsinghua University, China
Barry Hayes, University College Cork, Ireland
Miguel Heleno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenCan Huang, Pacific Gas and Electric Co PEC, USA
Yifan Li, Strata Clean Energy, USA
Xiaochuan Luo, ISO New England
Pierluigi Mancarella, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Leonardo Meeus, European University Institute – Florence School of Regulation, Italy
Rodrigo Moreno, University of Chile, Chile
Alexandre Street, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fengyu Wang, New Mexico State University, USA
Qin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yunfeng Wen, Hunan University, China
Di Wu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Baosen Zhang, University of Washington, USA
Jin Zhong, Hong Kong University, China
Resources:
Reviewers Recognition
Outstanding reviewers 2024 [PDF 105KB]
Associate Editor Recognition
Outstanding reviewers 2024 [PDF 67KB]
This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission.
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Article Processing Charges (APCs)
US$2495 for articles submitted in 2024. APC US$2645 for articles submitted in 2025.
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Page Charges
Transactions papers are limited to 10 pages at first submission. Papers exceeding 10 pages will be returned without review. Revised papers submitted in response to Revise and Resubmit decisions may exceed 10 pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2024 or later the overlength page charges are $250 per each page in excess of the first 12 published pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2023 – 31 December, 2023 the overlength page charges are $200 per each page in excess of the first 10 published pages. Papers submitted prior to 2023 will have overlength page charges of $150 per page for anything in excess of the first 8 published pages.
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