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Conference Report

Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Main Topics of Selected Papers in the 19th SDEWES Conference in 2024

by
Wenxiao Chu
1,
Maria Vicidomini
2,
Francesco Calise
2,*,
Neven Duić
3,
Poul Alberg Østergaard
4 and
Qiuwang Wang
1
1
Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering (Ministry of Education), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
2
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
3
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
4
Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2025, 18(17), 4647; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18174647 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 1 July 2025 / Revised: 10 August 2025 / Accepted: 27 August 2025 / Published: 1 September 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the SDEWES 2024 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems)
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Abstract

From September 8th to 12th, 2024, the 19th SDEWES Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems was successfully held in Rome. This event drew 700 researchers, scientists, and practitioners from 62 nations across six continents, with 570 participating in person and another 130 joining virtually. A total of seven papers were selected to be published in Energies, and the corresponding literature published in the most recent year is here reviewed. The main topics of the selected papers regard the adoption of district heating and cooling and their integration with renewable energies (such as geothermal or solar, the use of innovative bifacial PV panels, the use of biomass energy for the bio-synthetic natural gas production, the short-term electric load forecasting for industrial applications, and others. The reviewed papers show that several energy measures can be addressed to reach the decarbonization goals of 2050 and that the scientific community continues to find novel, sustainable, and efficient methods for the reduction in energy consumption and related CO2 emissions.
Keywords: building energy saving; DHC networks; renewable energy application; energy policy; electric load forecasting; biomass application; electric power system; CO2 emission building energy saving; DHC networks; renewable energy application; energy policy; electric load forecasting; biomass application; electric power system; CO2 emission

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Chu, W.; Vicidomini, M.; Calise, F.; Duić, N.; Østergaard, P.A.; Wang, Q. Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Main Topics of Selected Papers in the 19th SDEWES Conference in 2024. Energies 2025, 18, 4647. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18174647

AMA Style

Chu W, Vicidomini M, Calise F, Duić N, Østergaard PA, Wang Q. Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Main Topics of Selected Papers in the 19th SDEWES Conference in 2024. Energies. 2025; 18(17):4647. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18174647

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Chu, Wenxiao, Maria Vicidomini, Francesco Calise, Neven Duić, Poul Alberg Østergaard, and Qiuwang Wang. 2025. "Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Main Topics of Selected Papers in the 19th SDEWES Conference in 2024" Energies 18, no. 17: 4647. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18174647

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Chu, W., Vicidomini, M., Calise, F., Duić, N., Østergaard, P. A., & Wang, Q. (2025). Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Future: Main Topics of Selected Papers in the 19th SDEWES Conference in 2024. Energies, 18(17), 4647. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18174647

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