Energy Sustainability
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
Energy Sustainability aims to provide a leading multidisciplinary platform on innovation, research, technology development and demonstration in the fields of sustainable energy deployment. Sustainable energy deployment has a multilateral impact at local to global scales with social, ecological, health, and economic consequences, directly linked with renewable energy, new fuels such as hydrogen, energy conversion, energy transmission, energy storage, transportation, building energy consumption, smart grid, etc.
Energy Sustainability welcomes research articles, conceptual analysis articles, review articles, and commentaries related to energy resources, technologies, applications, deployment options and advanced techniques in support to achieving Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. The multi-disciplinary scope of “Energy Sustainability” includes but not limited to:
- Energy resources, technologies, conversion, management and storage;
- Energy sustainability options and green energy exploitation;
- Renewable energy applications and techniques;
- Smart and innovative energy technologies and applications;
- Green technology options and climate change;
- Energy strategy, policy, economics, and trade;
- Energy security, poverty, and justice;
- Energy and socio-economic development.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technologies, Opportunities, Challenges, and Promising Solutions (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Energy Transition and Sustainability: Economic, Technological, National, Regional and Global Opportunities and Challenges (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Policy and Structural Energy Reforms (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Conversion of Residual Biomass Energy to Power Generation (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Recent Progress of Sustainable Energy Economic, Energy Policy and Energy Transition (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Renewable Energy and Sustainable Waste Management: Advancements in Green Technologies for a Cleaner Future (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Progress in Sustainable and Clean Energy Technologies (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Planning and Environmental Assessment (Deadline: 8 June 2024)
- Sustainable Chemistry, Environment, Energy, and Economic Policies (Deadline: 10 June 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Storage and Power System Design in the Context of Carbon Neutrality (Deadline: 10 June 2024)
- Global Energy Economics and Implications of Energy-Related Policies: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 11 June 2024)
- Vehicle to Grid—Energy Conversion and Conservation (Deadline: 14 June 2024)
- Biomass Energy Usage for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 15 June 2024)
- Sustainable and Low-Carbon Power System Planning in the Electricity Market (Deadline: 29 June 2024)
- Energy Technology and Sustainable Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Advances in Solar Thermal Collectors and Systems: Technological, Efficiency, Energy Storage and Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Power System Control, Optimization, Smart Grids and Renewable Energy Integration for Energy Sustainability (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Sustainable and Renewable Thermal Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- District Energy Systems and Energy Management: Toward Energy Transition—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Urban Innovations: Trends and Technologies Shaping Smart Cities (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Current Advances in Offshore Wind Energy for Sustainability (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Advanced Developments in the Protection and Control of Power Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Modeling, Design, and Application of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Sustainable Wind Power Systems: Recent Advancements in AC/DC Collector Grids, and High-Voltage DC (HVDC) and Low-Frequency AC (LFAC) Transmission Systems (Deadline: 1 July 2024)
- The Impact of Technological Innovation on Renewable Energy Production: Simulation and Control of New Energy Power Generation Systems (Deadline: 1 July 2024)
- Energy Approach in Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction for a Sustainable and Resilient Society (Deadline: 4 July 2024)
- Sustainable Progress and Investigation of Alternative Fuels in Hard-to-Electrify Transportation Sectors (Deadline: 6 July 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Planning and Renewable Power Generation (Deadline: 13 July 2024)
- Efficient Renewable Energy Integration Technology in Low Voltage Networks (Deadline: 15 July 2024)
- Emerging Technologies and Research on the Heat Transfer and Energy System (Deadline: 17 July 2024)
- Energy Economics and Environmental Sustainability: The Development of Green Industry (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- Sustainability in Bioeconomy and Bioenergy (Deadline: 20 July 2024)
- Towards Sustainable Energy Transition: Replacing Fossil Fuels-Based Energy with Waste-Derived and Renewable Energy (Deadline: 26 July 2024)
- Storage and Catalytic Conversion of Sustainable Energy (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy Systems (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Energy Efficiency and Circular Economy: Strategies towards Sustainability (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Smart Cities Challenges, Trends, and Technologies (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Increasing the Energy and Indoor Environmental Resilience of Buildings and Systems into the Future (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Solar Thermal Power Systems (Deadline: 1 August 2024)
- The Electric Power Technologies: Today and Tomorrow (Deadline: 19 August 2024)
- Sustainability in the Development of Renewable Energy Technologies and Thermal Engineering (Deadline: 25 August 2024)
- Circular Economy, Energy Systems, New Trends and Innovations in Renewable Energy Technologies (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Future Development of Product Labelling in Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products and the EU Legal Framework for Energy Labelling (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Promising Alternative Fuels and Sustainability (Deadline: 3 September 2024)
- Breakthroughs in Green Technology Innovations: Paving the Way to Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency (Deadline: 5 September 2024)
- Perspectives and Challenges: New Energy Power Generation and Power System Sustainability (Deadline: 7 September 2024)
- Renewable Energy Communities: Smart Solutions and the Management of Distributed Energy Sources for the Optimization of Shared Energy (Deadline: 8 September 2024)
- Flexible Resources Investment in New-Type Electric Power Systems for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 13 September 2024)
- Sustainability in Fuel Consumption and Pollutant Emission Management (Deadline: 13 September 2024)
- Renewable Energy, Smart Grid Technologies and Sustainable Energy Management: Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 15 September 2024)
- Renewable Energy Driven Sorption Cooling and Desalination (Deadline: 17 September 2024)
- Recent Advances and Progress on Renewable and Sustainable Alternative Fuels (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Energy Economy and Sustainable Energy (Deadline: 21 September 2024)
- Energy Poverty, Inequality and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 24 September 2024)
- Advanced Research on Sustainable Performance Optimization in Electrical Systems (Deadline: 26 September 2024)
- Sustainable Net-Zero-Energy Building Solutions (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Nuclear Energy and Technology and Its Environmental Impact (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Sustainable Scenarios of Energy and Ecological Footprint (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Renewable Energies in the Built Environment (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Energy Price Forecasting and Sustainability on Energy Transition (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Low-Cost and Renewable Energy towards Sustainability: Latest Developments in Production, Storage and Distribution (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Future of Clean Energy: Prospects of Nuclear Fusion (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Economic Transformations, Renewable Energy, and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Modeling and Utilization of Solar Energy and Biomass for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Net-Zero-Energy Building Solutions for Sustainability (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Green Energy Economic Management (Deadline: 1 October 2024)
- Renewable Energy, Electric Power Systems and Sustainability (Deadline: 5 October 2024)
- Hybrid Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Solar Cells, Batteries and Fuel Cells (Deadline: 8 October 2024)
- Low-Temperature Chemistry and Sustainable Energy: New Paths to Reducing Carbon Emissions (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
- Regulation and Control of Flexible Resources in Resilient and Sustainable Power Systems (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
- Technology and Energy Transition for Sustainable Cities (Deadline: 21 October 2024)
- Technologies for a Sustainable Future: Towards Sustainable Energy Supply (Deadline: 24 October 2024)
- Future Trends of Sustainable Electricity Supply and Power System Decarbonization (Deadline: 26 October 2024)
- Energy Economy Aspect of Sustainability (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Energy Use, Storage and Emission Analysis for Industrial Decarbonization (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Towards Energy Sustainability: Thermal Analysis and Renewable Energy Studies (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Sustainable Development and Planning Optimization Related to the Energy Power Market (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Alternative Fuels for Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Technologies, Thermodynamic and Emission Assessment (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Integrated Regional Energy Planning towards Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- New Developments in Renewable Energy Sources and Sustainable Manufacturing (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Renewable Energy Policies and Ecological Economics: Pathways to Sustainability (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Storage Materials and Devices (Deadline: 3 November 2024)
- Sustainable Operation and Control of Renewable Energy Resources (Deadline: 10 November 2024)
- Energy Storage and Sustainable Power Supply (Deadline: 10 November 2024)
- Solar-Pumped Lasers and Sustainable Laser Beams: Current and Future Development (Deadline: 14 November 2024)
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems: Architecture, Methodology and Technology, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Sustainable Electric Propulsion Drive and Wind Turbine Technologies (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Smart Grids and Microgrids in Smart Cities: Operation, Control, Protection and Security (Deadline: 17 November 2024)
- Integration of Renewable Energies in Energy Systems and Buildings: Solutions for Energy Sustainability (Deadline: 18 November 2024)
- Evaluation and Utilization of Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 19 November 2024)
- Sustainability Assessment of Innovative Energy Technologies–Hydrogen Uses for Mobility Applications (Deadline: 24 November 2024)
- Energy Economics and Energy Policy towards Sustainability (Deadline: 25 November 2024)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation: Application in Industries (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Energy and Environment: Policy, Economics and Modeling (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Recent Technological Advancements Driving Sustainable Development in Flexible and Resilient Power and Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Energy Storage and Integration of Renewable Energy Systems towards Energy Sustainability (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy for Sustainability Future: Current State, Potential and Perspectives (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Sustainable Development of Biomass Energy under the Trend of Carbon Neutrality (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Sustainable Solutions for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Net-Zero Emissions (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Thermally Driven Renewable Energy Technologies (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Renewable Energy and Power System Transformation: Striving towards Carbon Neutrality (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advanced Intelligent Monitoring Methods in Exploitation of Deep Green Energy Resources (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems and Infrastructure: Assessing Sustainability and Environmental Performance (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Safety and Reliability of Renewable Energy Systems for Sustainability (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Renewable Energy Technology and Sustainable Building Research (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Energy Storage Technologies for a Sustainable Future (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Bioresource Technology and Energy Sustainable Development (Deadline: 1 December 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Use: Innovative Research into Solar Thermal Systems (Deadline: 10 December 2024)
- Selected Papers from the 12th European Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (Deadline: 16 December 2024)
- Sustainable Energy Systems and Applications (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Climate Change and Sustainability: Intelligent Operation and Maintenance of New Energy Systems (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Progress in Sustainable Wind and Hydro Power Systems (Deadline: 23 December 2024)
- Waste-to-Energy Technologies for a Sustainable and Net-Zero Emission Future (Deadline: 24 December 2024)
- Enhancing Sustainability through Power System Flexibility, Smart Grids, and Energy Digitalization (Deadline: 25 December 2024)
- Energy Management System and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advanced Control Techniques for Renewable Energy Systems and Power Electronics Volume II (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Advances in Smart Buildings, Energy Storage, and Sustainable Energy Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Renewable Energy, CO2 Emission and Regional Economic Development (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Towards Sustainability: Advanced Research on Renewable Energy Policy and Smart City (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Sustainable Technology and Systems for the Integration of Renewables in the Energy Islands (Deadline: 10 January 2025)
- Sustainability of Smart Energy Networks: Pathway for Achieving a Green Smart Energy Network—2nd Edition (Deadline: 13 January 2025)
- Energy Sources, Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Synergic Integration of Electric Vehicles, Renewable Energy, and Storage Systems into Smart Grids (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Empowering Safe and Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Systems: Challenges, Innovations, and Emerging Frontiers (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Energy Storage, Conversion and Sustainable Management (Deadline: 18 January 2025)
- Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Sustainable Transportation and Buildings (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Advances in Stability Control, Optimal Operation and Modeling Analysis of Power System with High-Level Renewable Energy (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Developing Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Telecommunication Systems (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Sustainable Fuel Spray, Fuel Film Formation and Combustion Applied in Low-Carbon Powertrains—Volume II (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) for Clean Energy (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Sustainable Energy Systems and Renewable Generation—Second Edition (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Sustainable Development Challenges and Future Trends of Water–Energy–Food Nexus (Deadline: 9 February 2025)
- Decarbonization of Energy and Materials for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 10 February 2025)
- Smart Charging and Grid Integration for Sustainable Electric Transportation (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Sustainable Energy Transition: The Role of Renewable Energy and Power Systems—Current Trends and Challenges (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Advances in Efficient and Sustainable Transport Using Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage in Transport (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Intelligent Battery Energy Storage Management: Enhancing Performance, Safety, and Sustainability (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Sustainable Energy: Addressing Issues Related to Renewable Energy (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Renewable Energy Integration and Application in Buildings for Carbon Neutrality 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Advanced Control Strategies for Renewable Energy Systems and Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Sustainability of Materials and Processes Related to Energy Transition (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Strategies for Efficient and Sustainable Energy (Deadline: 9 April 2025)
- Energy Transition, Energy Economics, and Environmental Sustainability (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
- Advances in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Environmental Sustainability and Design Strategies of Future Smart Energy Systems (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- The Sustainable Performance of Power Supply Chain Systems (Deadline: 2 May 2025)
- Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Networks (Deadline: 7 May 2025)
- Sustainable Energy and Climate: Net Zero Strategies and Rapid Decarbonisation Pathways (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Power Quality Improvement Using Power Converters Powered by V2G Vehicles Charging Stations (Deadline: 6 June 2025)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Electric Vehicles: New Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability
- Microgrids: The Path to Sustainability
- Power System and Sustainability
- Secure and Sustainable Energy System
- Smart Energy for a Sustainable Future. Experiences in Photovoltaic System Monitoring
- Sustainable Buildings and Energy Performance
- Sustainable Development of Electric Vehicle
- Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research