Selected Papers from the SDEWES 2020 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems

Dear Colleagues,

One of the main issues of the coming decades is improving efficiencies by integrating various life-supporting systems, using waste from one as a resource in another, and in then exact moment when it is beneficial to all, integrating electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, waste, wastewater, industry, forestry, and agriculture systems. Sustainability also being the perfect field for interdisciplinary and multicultural evaluation of complex systems, the SDEWES conferences have become a significant venue for researchers in those areas to meet and to develop, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas. 

Energy has been and is the key-factor in human development; however, it is also one of the main—if not the main—human environmental fingerprints. Even with a significant attention on the importance and merits of sustainable energy supply over the last few decades, there are still significant gaps to be filled with respect to how to design and implement technically optimal energy systems at the lowest cost.  

This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide an important contribution by presenting state-of-the-art sustainable energy supply solutions ranging from technical analyses of energy components on both the supply and demand side to energy scenarios and pathways. This SI particularly welcomes SDEWES papers that address the energy system without traditional sector boundaries between electricity, heating, cooling, transportation and industrial demands and rather considers the integration and synergies between these sectors.

The 15th conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems—SDEWES Conference will be held in Cologne, dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies, and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge-based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental, and social pillars.

Prof. Dr. Poul Alberg Østergaard
Prof. Dr. Francesco Calise
Prof. Dr. Neven Duić
Prof. Dr. Qiuwang Wang
Prof. Dr. Maria da Graça Carvalho
Guest Editors

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