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The energy transition is shifting from large national energy systems to local energy systems in communities, neighborhoods, districts, villages, and business parks. During this process, each local system requires its own sustainable, reliable, and affordable design, operation, and control scheme. Novel approaches are also needed to optimize network architecture, planning, and development based on the opportunities offered by integrated local energy systems and enabled by digitalization and power electronics (PE). This Special Issue offers a major forum for the reporting of advances in modeling, control, optimization, and application of local energy systems as building blocks of future smart, flexible, and low-carbon energy systems. Similarly, the Special Issue also focuses on recent advances in cross-border cooperation in the energy sector on a wide range of topics, including the following: -Models and designs for regional and local energy systems -Energy planning and management -Distributed energy solutions -Innovative controls for renewable source integration -Novel renewable energy converter/inverter systems -Advanced power electronic technologies and front-ends for local energy systems -Energy storage systems -Microgrids and local energy communities -Analysis of energy systems -Local energy systems for electric mobility -Low-carbon community energy systems -Market integration and business model innovation for local energy -Energy hubs and multi-carrier energy systems/energy islands -Local cyberphysical systems, information and communication infrastructure, and data analytics -Real-world applications of local energy systems