Applications of Photovoltaic Systems for Sustainable Development Using Highly Efficient Materials, Models, and Intelligent Hybrid Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The modernization and development of countries require reliable, affordable, and pollution-free energy. Sustainable development has immense research potential for conquering today’s challenges in facilitating human existence and benefitting society. Economic progress, access to renewable energy, advancements in energy policies, technology, mathematical models, and highly efficient photovoltaic materials can all enhance sustainable development. Issues related to photovoltaic systems, such as power extraction, storage, and distribution, necessitate enormous life-long storage, energy-efficient PV materials, simplified mathematical modeling, and techniques for maintaining sustainability. Ensuring grid security optimizes resource allocation, integration, and power quality, bringing significant barriers to photovoltaic system usages. Intelligent hybrid systems, highly accurate forecasting tools, and efficient converters are required for solving these dilemmas. The design of highly efficient PV cells, expert adaptive power modulators, controllers, mathematical modeling, and MPPT controls have in recent years received immense interest in academia, investigation, and production fields. Photovoltaic systems bear an enormous scope across various countries. Smart homes, microgrids, PV-based electric vehicles, autonomous drones, and many projects use photovoltaic systems to improve the standard of human living. Photovoltaic systems empower sustainable development to solve energy threats and environmental effects. This Special Issue addresses recent progress and advancements concerning technology, mathematical modeling, materials, battery storage, and intelligent systems for photovoltaic systems. This Special Issue intends to gather promising work in highly efficient novel materials, frameworks, mathematical approaches, and technologies for photovoltaic systems, additionally facilitating recent innovative strategic plans, sustainable development, research issues, and solutions in regard to the proposal of state-of-the-art and hybrid models for photovoltaic systems to tackle sustainability. Contemporary ideas are of utmost importance towards solving erupting and futuristic mathematical problems in photovoltaic systems. The Special Issue aims to cover a wide range of themes and topics, including, but not limited to:

• Energy-efficient sustainable photovoltaic systems;
• Energy security, policy issues, and mathematical problem solutions for sustainable development;
• Intelligent novel hybrid systems;
• PV-based electric vehicles and drones;
• Hardware implementation of AI-based controllers and their complexity;
• Decision support systems for smart grids;
• PV system mathematical modeling and forecasting applications;
• Novel mathematical theories and intelligent hybrid system modeling methods for photovoltaic systems;
• Multiobjective optimization and its complexity;
• AI-based power converter and MPPT;
• Smart batteries and their complexity;
• Deep and reinforcement learning in renewable energy systems;
• Nature-inspired methods and algorithms in photovoltaic systems;
• High-performance computing in sustainable development;
• Mathematical complexity, prospects, and future perspectives in photovoltaic systems.

Dr. Manoharan Madhiarasan
Prof. Dr. Daniel Tudor Cotfas
Prof. Dr. Petru Adrian Cotfas
Guest Editors

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• photovoltaic systems
• hybrid systems
• mathematical modeling
• interdisciplinary research in energy
• smart batteries
• artificial intelligence
• nature-inspired methods
• high-performance computing
• smart materials
• Internet of Things
• smart grid
• sustainable development
• electric vehicles and drones