Energy Development for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Energy development provides for the generation of sustainable energy from conventional, alternative, and renewable energy sources aiming to satisfy societal demands. It also covers technologies and approaches in the recovery of energy losses which in turn enhances the energy efficiency of the system. However, it remains a persistent challenge to produce the needed energy while significantly reducing the environmental effects, such as the emission of greenhouse gases, which lead to climate change. Moreover, technological and economic limitations may also hinder energy development for sustainability. Motivated by this fact, studies on renewable, alternative, and clean energy have recently been explored. As examples, works on bioenergy, solar photovoltaics, wind, hybrids, and coal technology have been extensively researched.

Recently, energy development has received significant attention through the promising results of technology development, experimentation, computational modeling, and validation. However, several challenging topics remain with energy development approaches. Thus, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect and publish the latest developments in various aspects of energy development for sustainability.

The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:

• Hydropower;
• Solar energy;
• Wind energy;
• Bioenergy;
• Biofuels;
• Geothermal energy;
• Oceanic energy;
• Hybrids;
• Energy storage;
• Energy saving;
• Carbon capture.

This Special Issue focuses on various energy developments which enable sustainable energy production.

Prof. Dr. Wei-Hsin Chen
Prof. Dr. Alvin B. Culaba
Prof. Dr. Aristotle T. Ubando
Assist. Prof. Steven Lim
Guest Editors

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