Renewable Energy Utilization for Energy Saving and Carbon-Emission Reduction

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing demand of the global environment change and regional sustainable development, how to utilize the renewable energy for the energy saving and carbon-emission reduction in such aspects as industry, building and traffic, has become an urgent and challenging issue to be addressed. For example, it is reported that that the combined buildings and construction sectors are responsible for 40% of global energy use and 37% of global CO₂ emissions. As a result, new types of energy systems related to wind power, solar power, biomass and geothermal energy arise, which can generate, store, distribute and flexibly use renewable energy sources, and differ from the traditional energy system merely interacted with the power grid. Meanwhile, these new energy power systems also face some practical problems as the multi-level voltage regulation, AC/DC conversion, power transmission limitation and power quality.

This Special Issue aims to invite theoretical and application-driven researchers to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to energy saving and carbon-emission reduction by using renewable energy.

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

• Advances in renewable energy technology;
• Design, modelling and simulation of renewable energy systems;
• Optimization and control of renewable energy systems;
• Energy storage and integration;
• Calculation and evaluation of carbon emission;
• Grid-connected photovoltaic power systems;
• Energy Internet and electricity market;
• Microgrid, smart grid and smart energy;
• Topology and robust control of modular multilevel AC/DC converters and inverters;
• Networked and multi-network cooperative control.

Dr. Yanmin Wang
Guest Editor

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• renewable energy
• energy saving
• carbon-emission reduction
• design and modelling
• optimization control
• cooperative control
• energy storage
• energy internet
• electricity market