Sustainable and Low Carbon Development in the Energy Sector—2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable economic development; green economy; renewable energy sources; low-carbon agriculture; energy conservation; emission reduction; low-carbon development; energy; sustainability
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Interests: complexity economics; ecological economics; nuclear fusion; thermodynamics; econophysics; nonlinear dynamics; chaos theory; catastrophe theory; econometrics; economic methodology; energy transition; renewable energy; entropy; wicked problems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Humanity is currently at a crossroads, as escalating environmental pollution is intensifying climate change and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect. If current patterns of economic development continue, they may lead civilization toward self-destruction. Consequently, the highest priority now is to transform the global energy sector and steer it toward sustainable, low-carbon development.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the latest advances in the economic utilization of both renewable and conventional energy sources that support sustainable human development and contribute to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. We welcome both theoretical and applied studies addressing economic, environmental, legal, and technical aspects related to the theory, design, modeling, operation, and condition monitoring of low-cost, low-carbon power systems. These include not only renewable resources but also nuclear power and innovative approaches to zero- or low-carbon fossil fuel combustion. Given the global threat posed by climate change, multidisciplinary research is of critical importance and is strongly encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- All aspects of low-carbon power systems based on both renewables and nuclear power;
- Managing the renewable energy sector and integrating it with fossil-fuel-based power plants;
- Digitization and electrification of large sectors of the economy, such as transportation and heating;
- Integration of renewable energy systems;
- Electric and hydrogen cars;
- Prospects for the development of electric aircraft;
- Limitation of economic development associated with increasing thermodynamic entropy;
- Econophysical methods in the study of the renewable energy sector;
- Nonlinear dynamics and energy aspects of low-carbon development;
- Energy security and environmental protection;
- Energy and environmental systems in buildings;
- Distributed energy generation;
- Energy system optimization;
- Shift from consumer to prosumer in the energy sector;
- Energy justice and energy poverty;
- The future of energy systems: energy internet and the Internet of Things;
- Circular economy;
- The energy efficiency of buildings;
- Tidal energy industry;
- Prosumer power generation;
- The role of human and more-than-human contact zones in the development of the renewable energy sector;
- Environmental heaters (heat pump heaters);
- Biomass heating systems;
- Gas hybrid and gas renewable ready heaters;
- The energy prosumer as an active market participant;
- Renewable energy technologies;
- Distributional inequities and cross-subsidization;
- Challenges in the cyber security of energy systems;
- Smart grids as a fundamental element of a decentralized energy system;
- Demand response management;
- Energy clusters and energy cooperatives;
- Renewable energy community and citizen energy community;
- The Jevons paradox and energy efficiency;
- Solar communism;
- Energy storage.
Prof. Dr. Maria Dzikuć
Prof. Dr. Aleksander Jakimowicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy systems
- energy transition
- distributed generation
- low-carbon development
- climate change
- energy internet
- smart grids
- environmental economics
- low-carbon agriculture
- energy conservation
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