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Energy Markets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Challenges and Prospects submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy markets; energy strategy; energy sources; renewable energy; CO2 emissions; greenhouse gases reduction; green innovation; green credit; green bonds; green transition; green economy; circular economy; green financial markets; energy sectors; electric cars; solar energy; wind energy; biogas; sustainable development goals; energy saving solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
From Carbon Fossil Based Energy to Alternative Energy Production Technologies submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: alternative energy system; bio-economy; sustainability; innovation
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Efficient Building Energy Systems: Simulation, Optimization and Renewable Energy Integration
edited by and Martina Ferrando
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: building energy systems; building performance simulation; energy optimization; renewable energy integration; photovoltaic systems; heat pumps; energy storage; HVAC optimization; passive design; smart building technologies; adaptive comfort; digital twins; machine learning for energy prediction; net-zero energy buildings; nearly zero energy buildings; life-cycle assessment; district energy systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
Advances in Technologies and Circuits for Renewable Energy Systems submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open
Keywords: photovoltaic; energy harvesting; maximum power point tracking; renewable energy; power electronic interfaces; energy transduction technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Safe Operation and Protection of Power Transformers
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: early fault protection; magnetic field measurement; transformer active protection
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Next-Generation Phase Change Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: phase change materials (PCMs); latent heat thermal energy storage; nano-enhanced PCMs; composite PCMs; encapsulation techniques; thermal conductivity enhancement; solar thermal systems; photovoltaic– thermal (PV/T) systems; concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) cooling; solar desalination; waste-derived thermal storage materials; melting/solidification modelling; heat-transfer enhancement; techno-economic assessment; sustainable energy materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section J1: Heat and Mass Transfer)
Impacts of Distributed Energy Resources on Power Systems—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: distributed energy resources; uncertainty analysis; stochastic optimization; renewables; resilience; demand-side resources
(This special issue belongs to the Section F2: Distributed Energy System)
Hydrogen Transport in Nuclear Energy Systems
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrogen transport; hydrogen isotopes; nuclear energy systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)
Thermochemical Upgrading of Woody Biomass: Torrefaction, Material Valorization, and Energy Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass; torrefaction; material valorization; energy utilization; densification; energy balance; sustainable utilization
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Catalytic Hydrogen Production and Hydrogen Energy Utilization—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 17 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open
Keywords: catalytic hydrogen production; hydrogen energy utilization; electrolytic hydrogen; hydrogen storage; fuel cells; renewable energy integration; hydrogen combustion; materials and catalysts; hydrogen safety and environmental aspects; IoT; AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
Techno-Economic Evaluation of Hydrogen Energy
edited by Elvira Spatolisano, and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6773 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable H2 production; H2  fuel cells; H2  transport; H2  value chains; H2  purification; process intensification
(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Photovoltaic Energy Systems
edited by and Aref Eskandari
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3145 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); deep learning; solar photovoltaics (PV); power forecasting; fault detection and diagnosis; reinforcement learning; digital twin; edge AI / IoT; PV system optimization; renewable energy analytics
(This special issue belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
Organic Photovoltaics and Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications
edited by and Xiaoling Ma
submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open
Keywords: organic semiconducting materials; solar cells; photodetectors
(This special issue belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
New Insights into Decision Making Methods for Renewable Energy Investments submission deadline 22 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2056 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy investments; decision-making methods; multi-criteria analysis; risk and uncertainty; investment appraisal; optimization; real options; artificial intelligence; sustainable energy planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advanced Sustainable Industrial Heating: Technologies and Applications submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 26956 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial decarbonisation; Low-Caron heating; industrial heating; waste heat recovery; thermal energy storage; renewable energy integration; electrification; hydrogen; alternative fuels; thermal efficiency; heat pumps; net zero
(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
Sustainable Energy, Environment and Low-Carbon Development
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 23218 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental problems; environment pollution; green energy technologies; sustainable development; bioenergy; energy conversion and management; water– energy– food nexus; recycling technologies; low-carbon development
(This special issue belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
Advanced Hydrogen Technologies for Energy Production, Accumulation, Distribution and Energetic Equipment Repair submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 23012 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable environmentally friendly energy in engines and turbines; “ green” hydrogen-containing fuel and lubricant-cooling hydrogen-containing environments; thermal protection of hydrogen turbine blades and discs; influence of hydrogen on crack resistance of new generation of energetic structural materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
Novel and Emerging Energy Systems
edited by , and Paweł Czyżewski
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 20013 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy innovation; energy flexibility; hybrid energy systems; ammonia/hydrogen for power; power electronics in renewable energy
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Energy Management Systems: Challenges, Techniques and Opportunities: 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19534 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy management; demand-side management; demand-side response; energy flexibility; energy efficiency; prosumers; microgrids; virtual plants; transactive energy; internet of energy; renewable energy sources; energy storage; distributed generation; building energy management systems; machine learning; reinforcement learning; vehicle-to-grid
(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
Recent Advances in Fluid Machinery, Energy Systems and Power Generation submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13583 | Submission Open
Keywords: experimental analysis; computational fluid dynamics; thermal management; power generation; turbomachinery; hybrid engines; turbine cooling; hydrogen combustion; optimization methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
Advancements in Marine Renewable Energy and Hybridization Prospects
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11612 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine energy; structural analysis; wave energy; wind energy; hybrid devices; offshore energy; marine engineering; coastal engineering; port engineering; hydrodynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
Advances in Optimal Control and Smart Operation of Renewable Energy Systems
edited by Zhihuai Xiao, , , Yan Ren and Jingjing Zhang
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10637 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydropower; wind power; photovoltaic power generation; nonlinear modelling; stability analysis; fault diagnosis; trend prediction; state assessment; optimal control; system integration; multi-energy complementarity; multi-field coupling; system capacity allocation; joint dispatch optimization; artificial intelligence; optimization algorithm
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advanced Clean Coal Technology
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8461 | Submission Open
Keywords: coal; clean coal technologies; gasification; combustion; pyrolysis; hydrogenation; carbon dioxide capture and storage; life cycle analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
Numerical and Experimental Study of Alternative Fuel Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6634 | Submission Open
Keywords: internal combustion engines; alternative fuels; e-fuels; biofuels; numerical simulation; experimental study; combustion modeling; pollutant emissions
(This special issue belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
Economic Strategies for Integrating Energy and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6502 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy poverty; energy investment; energy economy; energy transition
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Reliability of Power Electronics Devices and Converter Systems: 2nd Edition
edited by Jun Wang, Jun Zhang, Kun Tan, and Hengyu Yu
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 5180 | Submission Open
Keywords: power device; power converter; reliability
(This special issue belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
Advanced Heating and Cooling Technologies for Sustainable Buildings submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5175 | Submission Open
Keywords: heating; cooling; building sector; decarbonization; novel heat pumps
(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
Energy Efficiency of the Buildings: 4th Edition
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5066 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermal isolation in buildings; heat storage systems; energy effective heating and cooling systems; thermal comfort and energy efficiency; building operation and monitoring; control systems in the buildings; energy recovery systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
Planning, Operation, and Control of New Power Systems: 2nd Edition
edited by Hui Hou, Siyang Liao, Yunqi Wang and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4732 | Submission Open
Keywords: new power systems; carbon neutral carbon peak; optimal planning; operation; and control
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Energy Modeling and Efficiency Optimization for Sustainable Building Systems
edited by Liang Zhang and Jianli Chen
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4519 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable building systems; AI in energy modeling; smart building controls; renewable energy integration; urban-scale energy modeling; HVAC optimization; digital twins in buildings; climate adaptation in buildings
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advances in Energy, Industry, and Low-Carbon Systems: Science, Technology, and Policy submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4325 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon capture and storage; CCUS; direct air capture; CO2 utilization; circular economy; resource recycling; energy efficiency; carbon policy; net-zero emissions; industrial decarbonization
(This special issue belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
State-of-the-Art Research in Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Applications: 2nd Edition
edited by Ding Chen, , and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4247 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced materials; energy storage; mechanical manufacturing supercapacitors; batteries; high-entropy alloy; electrocatalysts; flexible electron; biomass-based energy storage; nanocellulose or lignin; nanotechnology
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Power Distribution System
edited by , Xueneng Su and Shu Zhang
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3984 | Submission Open
Keywords: distribution system; fault detection; fault diagnosis; fault anticipation
(This special issue belongs to the Section F2: Distributed Energy System)
Advanced Machine Learning and Data Analysis Technologies in Modern Energy Systems
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3329 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning in energy systems; fault diagnosis and resilient control; data-driven energy optimization; multi-source data fusion; explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)
(This special issue belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
Advances in Bioenergy and Biofuel Conversion: Designs and Optimization
edited by Xiuzheng Zhuang and Xinghua Zhang
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3288 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass conversion; biofuels; bio-based materials or chemicals
(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
Assessment of Energy and Electricity Market: Trends and Future Perspectives
edited by Jaroslav Petráš
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3203 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy integration; smart grids; energy policy; energy and electricity market trends; future perspective in energy and electricity market
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Advanced in Modeling, Analysis and Control of Microgrids
edited by Gang Lin and Jiayan Liu
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3134 | Submission Open
Keywords: modelling and stability analysis; power electronic converters; stability control
(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
Novel Energy Management Approaches in Microgrid Systems, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2685 | Submission Open
Keywords: distributed generation (DG) control; energy management system interoperability; storage system control; electric vehicles to grid (V2G) and grid to electric vehicle (G2V) schemes; network operations in cases of increased DGs; microgrid management systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
Development and Validation of Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage
edited by and John Calautit
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2480 | Submission Open
Keywords: phase change material; molecular dynamics; AI; energy storage
(This special issue belongs to the Section G2: Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage)
Energy Transition and Economic Growth
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2429 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy transition; economic development; renewable energy; fossil fuels energy; technological innovation; green investments; carbon emission; energy efficiency; productivity; employment; income inequality; energy policy
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Advanced Control and Coordinated Optimization of Distributed Power Systems
edited by Guanguan Zhang and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2393 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptative and robust control; finite time control; power quality; stability analysis; grid-forming
Energy Policy and Sustainable Development: Challenges to Economic Development—2nd Edition
edited by and Brigita Zuromskaite
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2134 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy policy; energy economics; energy efficiency; climate policy; sustainable development; energy poverty; policy instruments; regulation policy; environmental impact; renewable energy; economics of energy systems; integration of energy markets; energy security; post-COVID economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
Control Technologies for Wind and Photovoltaic Power Generation
edited by , Jian Wang and Songli Fan
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2058 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewables energy; energy storage system; power systems; energy system; control technologies; optimization strategies; artificial intelligence; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Advances in Power and Electrical Engineering
edited by Ningyi Dai, Li Liu, Ge Chen and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 2053 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart grid; integrated energy system; renewable energy; power electronics
(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
Emission Control and Sustainable Energy
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2012 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution; sustainable energy; emission reduction; waste-to-energy; renewable energy; circular economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
Research on Power Transformers, Power Cable, High Voltage and Insulation Technology
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1908 | Submission Open
Keywords: fault diagnostics; power transformers; power cable; oil-paper insulation; simulation; detection technology and methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
Modeling and Planning of Energy Systems
edited by Tianyu Wang and Lei Su
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1745 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy systems; energy storage; power system; modeling; control; optimization; planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Electric Power and Energy Systems
edited by and Xiaoming Liu
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1596 | Submission Open
Keywords: data-driven methods; power and energy systems; renewable energy integration; integrated energy systems; smart grid; microgrid; demand response; energy storage systems; economic dispatch; cyber– physical system security
(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Power Electronics and Energy Storage Systems: 2nd Edition
edited by , Chen Liu and
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1563 | Submission Open
Keywords: condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; power electronics; energy storage systems (ESSs); multilevel converters; physics-of-failure analysis; battery management systems (BMS); state-of-health (SoH) estimation; remaining useful life (RUL) estimation; artificial intelligence and machine learning in diagnostics
(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
Control of Renewable Power Generation and Microgrids—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1524 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable power generation; microgrids; control; operation; reliability
(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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