Novel Research on Renewable Power and Hydrogen Generation

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable energy sources, materials and systems are required to achieve rapid progress in the Sustainable Development Goals before the end of 2030. Away from the usual politics and fanfare that play out during the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings, scientists and engineers need to double up on novel solutions to tackle climate change and sustainable development.  

Renewable energy remains one approach to achieve cleaner power production because renewable energy sources are inexhaustible, and there are no emissions during operation. The second approach could be to use materials and platform chemicals with low carbon contents.  Operationally, energy storage remains a problem although using hydrogen as an energy vector remains optimistic in the coming years.

The full spectrum of innovating engineering materials for harvesting, transporting, storing, converting, conserving and transforming renewable energy has resulted in several research and engineering advances. Different energy materials, renewable power design methodologies, modelling and simulation tools, manufacturing processes for renewable energy systems, and green and blue hydrogen technologies are geared towards achieving net zero emissions and replacing fossil fuels during power generation. Consequently, there is a need to collate state-of-the-art outputs on renewable power and hydrogen generation.

This Special Issue aims to present novel research outputs and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, control, modelling, simulations, operations, materials, application, business models, case studies on renewable power and hydrogen generation.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Integration of renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, biomass, etc.) to generate power, hydrogen or for multi-objective applications.
• Hybrid/integrated energy systems for power and hydrogen generation.
• Renewable power and hydrogen applications in buildings, outdoor environments, remote locations, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, agricultural, service sectors, and in any other industrial sector.
• Materials for energy harvesting and storage.
• Materials for hydrogen generation and storage.
• Grid and off-grid integration of renewable energy technologies for power and hydrogen generation.
• Distributed renewable energy technology business models.
• Manufacturing renewable energy technologies.
• Risk management of renewable energy systems.
• Optimal design and sizing methodologies.
• Advanced modelling approaches.
• Zero emissions in the total lifecycle of renewable energy technologies.

Dr. Chukwuma Ogbonnaya
Guest Editor

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• renewable energy technologies
• solar energy
• wind energy
• bioenergy
• hydrogen energy
• hydrogen generation
• fuel cells