Energy Transformation towards Sustainability: Challenges and Perspectives
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B2: Clean Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 4547
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world economy has increased more than three times over the last four decades. Meanwhile, consumption of primary energy worldwide grew 10% within 7 years. Population growth and economic development are the two main driving forces that influence the growth of energy demand in the medium- and long-term in both developing and developed countries. Households, the service sector and transport consume the greatest amount of energy. At the same time, in industry, energy consumption grew more slowly due to installed modern technologies. Still, the EU oil accounts for 60% of total consumption. However, it is expected that both developing and developed countries will consume more energy from renewable resources then from fossil ones by 2035. For example, some countries, such as Germany, expect to reduce consumption of coal to 17% by 2050. Iceland consumes the highest amounts of renewable sources to TPES among Scandinavian and the OECD countries. This Special Issue invites papers focusing on renewable energy problems, the driving forces of energy demand and supply, constantly increasing energy consumption in developed and developing countries and their interlinkages with sustainable development, economy, social environment, environmental and technological issues. This Special Issue welcomes papers using a broad range of empirical methods—quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, interpretative design, and critical theory methodologies.
Prof. Agne Simelyte
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Energy demand and supply
- Renewable energy
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Bioenergy
- Hydro energy
- Primary energy
- Sustainability
- Energy transfer
- Energy consumption
- Energy policy
