Intelligent Solar Energy Systems for Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral Building Design
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy systems—photovoltaics; wind energy, and hydrogen (fuel cells); artificial intelligence (AI); power electronics; machine learning; reliability analysis; fault detection
Interests: solar energy; photovoltaics; deep learning; machine learning; optimisation algorithms; forecasting algorithms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The transition toward carbon-neutral buildings demands a paradigm shift from passive solar integration to intelligent, adaptive energy systems. This Special Issue will focus on AI-driven design, control, and optimisation of solar-integrated buildings, addressing key scientific challenges in modelling, prediction, and real-time system management.
We seek contributions that explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital twins can revolutionise the performance and resilience of building-integrated solar systems. Of particular interest are studies tackling explainable AI for predictive control, uncertainty quantification in solar generation and demand forecasting, and autonomous fault detection for integrated PV and storage.
This issue aims to advance the scientific understanding of how intelligent algorithms can optimise energy flows, support adaptive architectural design, and enable buildings to function as active energy producers. Submissions combining computational innovation, experimental validation, and real-world case studies are strongly encouraged.
By uniting expertise from the domains of energy, computing, and architecture, this Special Issue will define the next frontier of AI-empowered solar technologies for resilient, sustainable, and energy-positive buildings.
Dr. Mahmoud Dhimish
Prof. Dr. Adel Mellit
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- solar energy
- building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)
- artificial intelligence
- renewable energy systems
- smart buildings
- digital twins
- fault detection
- energy optimisation
- sustainable design
- energy storage integration
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