Sustainable Energy Innovation: Strategies to Accelerate Progress
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2014) | Viewed by 42519
Special Issue Editors
Interests: low-carbon energy transitions; energy systems modeling; energy technology innovation; energy policy analysis; energy efficiency
Interests: energy system modeling; energy system optimization; techno-economics of energy systems; new approaches to energy system life cycle assessment; carbon capture and storage; electricity storage deployment; small scale and offshore wind
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is facing significant challenges to meet the energy requirements of its people in a sustainable, secure and affordable way. Successfully addressing these global energy challenges will require a cleaner, smarter and more integrated energy system. Yet progress is lagging behind what is needed to meet internationally agreed climate targets and to ensure energy security and affordability.
This special issue will focus on highlighting best practice and identifying innovative strategies to accelerate progress in sustainable energy development and deployment. The intention is to explore energy systems innovation in its widest context, embracing policy, financial, business and social as well as engineering innovation. We invite contributions on all relevant topics, and in particular:
- the effectiveness of energy innovation systems
- innovation trends and prospects outside the OECD
- R&D and deployment policies for cross-cutting, supporting and demand-side technologies
- social innovations, business models and institutions and financing
- global technology flows and supply chains
- strategies to support systemic sustainable energy transitions
- the use of energy systems modelling to shed new light on any of the above
Professor Peter G. Taylor
Professor Tim Cockerill
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovation in energy systems
- sustainable energy
- energy technologies
- energy policies
- new business models
- financing
- social innovation
- supply chains
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