Guest Editorial Special Section on Applications of Smart Grid Technologies on Power Distribution Systems

There were 22 papers chosen for this special section on applications of smart grid technologies on power distribution systems. The papers cover a wide spectrum of subjects and discuss several aspects of interest for the smart grid industry in the areas of power distribution systems planning, operations and analysis, including: integration of Distributed Generation, Distributed Energy Storage, and Plug-In Electric Vehicles, advanced algorithms for real-time analysis and state estimation, microgrid and dc grid operation, and monitoring, control, protection and pricing of modern and future distribution systems.