Retraction notice to “Optimizing the planning of distributed generation resources and storages in the virtual power plant, considering load uncertainty” [J. Clean. Prod. 387 (2023) 135868]

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). Post-publication, the editor discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. In summary, the author names Yan Zhang (new First Author and Corresponding Author), Fangmin Yuan, Huipeng Zhai and Chuang Song were added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The editor reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes. In addition, it appears that Roza Poursoleiman was claiming an affiliation with Sun-Life Company, Baku, Azerbaijan. When questioned, the author was unable to provide convincing evidence of the existence and nature of this company. Overall, the editor feels that the findings of the manuscript cannot be relied uon and that the article needs to be retracted.