Sustainable and Low Carbon Development in the Energy Sector

Dear Colleagues,

Humanity is currently at a crossroads due to increasing environmental pollution responsible for worsening climate change and the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, and the continuation of current economic development trends may soon lead civilization to self-destruction. Therefore, the highest priority now is to change the structure of the energy sector of the world economy and direct it towards sustainable and low-carbon development.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the economic use of all types of renewable and traditional energy sources, which would enable sustainable human growth and contribute to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Both theoretical and practical papers on economic, environmental, legal and technical issues related to the theory, design, modeling, operation and condition monitoring of low-cost, low-carbon power systems, including not only renewable resources, but also nuclear power and novel technologies for the zero- or low-carbon combustion of fossil fuels, are welcome. Multidisciplinary research is of great importance in the face of global warming threats, and we strongly encourage it.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

• 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;
• Economic and legal challenges related to sustainable development;
• 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;
• Management of energy sector companies;
• 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;
• Environmental law and policy;
• 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.

Dr. Maria Dzikuć
Prof. Dr. Aleksander Jakimowicz
Guest Editors

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