Innovations in Renewable Energy Systems: Wind, Solar, Ocean, and Hybrid Integration for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewables’ integration into power systems; zero-carbon power systems; microgrids; electric vehicles
Interests: renewable sources; electrical power systems; smart microgrids; tidal/wave power
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition of energy to more sustainable and low-carbon-footprint power systems depends on the deployment of renewables and the development of technical solutions to allow their deeper integration into power systems. Wind and Solar sources are the main candidates, but other sources like Ocean and Hybrid plants may also be possible solutions depending on local availability. Investigations of the deployment of these sources, new technologies to produce power from them, and ways to mitigate their intrinsic intermittence, smoothing their integration into the grid, are mandatory to assure energy security, grid reliability, energy availability, and economic development.
This Special Issue aims to gather the most recent research innovations on renewables and their integration into power systems, discussing the challenges related to their exploration and integration to power systems.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- ocean energies: tidal and wave;
- new devices deployed to explore ocean resources;
- wind power;
- solar power;
- hybrid systems;
- integration of renewables into power grids: reliability, security, stability, and power/energy management;
- energy storage in power systems with high penetration of renewables;
- power electronics applied to renewables: new topologies and improvements in current methods and devices;
- zero-carbon microgrids.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Denisson Queiroz Oliveira
Prof. Dr. Osvaldo R. Saavedra
Guest Editors
Prof. Dr. Denisson Queiroz Oliveira
Dr. Osvaldo Ronald Saavedra
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- wind power planning and operation
- solar power planning and operation
- wave power planning and operation
- tidal power planning and operation
- low-carbon power systems
- renewable energy planning and operation
- energy storage
- power electronics
- smart microgrids
