Three billion people around the world live in severe energy poverty, including 1.1 billion who live completely off-grid. Providing affordable energy access to them can dramatically impact their living standard, health, education, productivity, and ability to be a part of modern society. In developing economies, the utilization of energy is also limited to some extent. Many programs and initiatives (e.g., the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives and the IEEE Smart Village) have been doing stellar work in tackling energy poverty in developing economies. However, much remains to be done to crowdsource relevant innovation to accelerate the deployment of energy access solutions in the affected areas, including the developing economies. According to the previous programs and initiatives, it has been identified that power electronics is one of the key technologies to address real-life issues in energy access and utilization, water supply, rural transportation, etc., for developing economies. In this context, it calls for innovative and scalable solutions that should be for emerging applications of power electronics with an emphasis on technical innovation and business viability to rapidly and sustainably scale to a wide range of customers in developing economies. Hence, we organized this Special Issue on Emerging Applications of Power Electronics in Developing Economies, aiming to bring together researchers, experts, policy makers, and stakeholders to tackle energy poverty issues in developing economies.

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客座编辑特刊关于电力电子在发展中经济体的新兴应用

全世界有 30 亿人生活在严重的能源贫困中，其中 11 亿人完全脱离电网生活。为他们提供负担得起的能源可以极大地影响他们的生活水平、健康、教育、生产力和成为现代社会一部分的能力。在发展中经济体，能源的利用也在一定程度上受到限制。许多计划和倡议（例如，IEEE Empower a Billion Lives 和 IEEE Smart Village）在解决发展中经济体的能源贫困问题方面取得了出色的成绩。然而，众包相关创新以加速在受影响地区（包括发展中经济体）部署能源获取解决方案还有很多工作要做。根据以往的计划和举措，已经确定，电力电子是解决发展中经济体能源获取和利用、供水、农村交通等现实生活问题的关键技术之一。在这种情况下，它需要创新和可扩展的解决方案，这些解决方案应该适用于电力电子的新兴应用，重点是技术创新和商业可行性，以快速和可持续地扩展到发展中经济体的广泛客户。因此，我们组织了本期特刊 它需要创新和可扩展的解决方案，这些解决方案应该适用于电力电子的新兴应用，重点是技术创新和商业可行性，以快速和可持续地扩展到发展中经济体的广泛客户。因此，我们组织了本期特刊 它需要创新和可扩展的解决方案，这些解决方案应该适用于电力电子的新兴应用，重点是技术创新和商业可行性，以快速和可持续地扩展到发展中经济体的广泛客户。因此，我们组织了本期特刊电力电子在发展中经济体的新兴应用，旨在汇集研究人员、专家、政策制定者和利益相关者，以解决发展中经济体的能源贫困问题。