Recently, due to the fast growth of technology and communication systems, electricity demand must be met with the highest quality and reliability. As a result, sustainable energies are highly in demand due to overwhelming environmental concerns. Based on this, conventional energy systems should be transformed into smart energy management systems to meet the requirements.

Smart and intelligent energy management system, novel technologies, schemes, techniques, automation, and control should be applied to enable energy saving without decreasing comfort levels. The associated technologies and control methodology are crucial in achieving global targets in energy efficiency, low-carbon, and low-emission operations. The greatest issue and challenges occur in large scale and complex system levels when new technologies are combined with models.

In this Special Issue, we aim to bring together leading academic as well as industrial researchers to explore new opportunities and speed up the transition into smart energy management techniques for the intelligent transportation system. Both experimental and theoretical research are welcome as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Novel smart energy management system architecture framework and technologies
• Bi-directional power converters
• Optimization and control
• Smart homes and buildings
• Energy efficiency
• Reliability, power quality, power electronic, load management, sensor network, and communication
• Energy efficiency
• Management systems
• Electric vehicles
• Smart grids
• Intelligent systems, heuristics, robust control, and adaptive systems