Modeling, Design, Development and Testing for Solar System

Dear Colleagues,

The growth in global energy consumption over the past few decades has been significant, and demand for energy will continue to grow due to global population increase. The energy demand is increasing rapidly, with an excessive fossil fuel consumption in civil and industrial sectors. Therefore, the concentration of CO₂ and greenhouse gas due to fossil fuels in atmosphere has dramatically increased along with its environmental issues and concerns. As a result, several approaches have to be undertaken to decrease fossil fuel consumption. Within this frame of reference, renewable energies play an important role.

Solar energy is the most abundant permanent energy resource, and solar energy systems have been grabbing the largest amount of attention among all other renewable energy systems—wind energy, biomass, geo thermal, ocean power, etc. Every solar energy technology features some combination of characteristics (such as passive and active solar energy, thermal and photovoltaic systems, concentrating and non-concentrating systems) to harness sunlight.

The European road map has been set with very ambitious goals; by 2030, it foresees a 55% reduction in CO2 emissions and an increase in renewable sources of 38.5%. The economic sustainability of CSP-type solar techniques has now been established, but the size of the plants is prohibitive for many situations. Distributed thermal and electrical solar generation remains a priority for everyone.

This Special Issue will cover the latest advances in the solar system. We encourage the submission of papers focused on novel design of solar energy systems and components, the test principle, and techniques for existing and novel systems. Furthermore, we welcome articles that investigate the latest methodologies in modeling and simulation of solar components as well as solar systems. Another suggested topic may include research on recent technical developments of solar systems with an emphasis on the efficiency and levelized cost of energy for solar systems.

Prof. Dr. Maurizio De Lucia
Prof. Dr. Philip Eames
Dr. Amedeo Amoresano
Dr. Giacomo Pierucci
Guest Editors

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