Energy Saving, Efficiency, and Conversion in Renewable and Sustainable Energy
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 November 2025 | Viewed by 859
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy efficiency; renewable energy systems; energy saving
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Interests: energy sources and energy conversion systems; energy simulation and modelling; solar photovoltaic; renewable energy sources; distributed generation and grid integration of renewables; computer methods for energy flow simulations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
The international context of the energy transition is extremely challenging. To comply with the Paris Agreement targets and the COP28 and COP29 pledges (tripling renewables, doubling the energy efficiency improvement rate, and increasing the grid and electric storage capacity) requires a huge international effort. Despite the possible exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement, many countries in the world, including China and the European Union, are both committed to pursue such targets, although with different approaches.
The UE aims to be at the forefront of this effort, having recently approved several directives and regulations aimed at supporting the energy transition, mainly focusing on energy saving, supporting renewables, and ensuring energy and materials supply. Similarly, but in a much more concrete way, China has set its zero-emission target for 2060 and is the main supplier of materials, systems, and facilities for the energy transition. China is still the biggest coal and oil consumer in the world, but has recently produced a huge effort in terms of renewables deployment.
This context is incredibly competitive, since many energy transition solutions, such as hydrogen and renewables-based fuels, are still expensive or have a large environmental impact, while the renewables supply chain imposes a great environmental pressure due to the requirement of critical materials, raising doubts about the overall sustainability of an energy system based almost entirely on renewables.
Therefore, it is crucial to identify technical and technological solutions able to increase efficiency in energy conversion, maximize renewable energy exploitation, and reduce economic costs. In addition, policy measures focused on increasing the rational use of energy, on supporting sustainably integrated solutions, on properly matching energy demand and production, and on maximizing renewable energy deployment and exploitation are needed.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research on both policies and new technological developments supporting the energy transition and the renewable energy exploitation. Articles may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Renewable energy technologies and applications;
- Energy storage, both electric and thermal;
- Green hydrogen production and hydrogen end-use applications;
- Advances in alternative fuels engineering;
- Advances in materials, techniques, and technologies for materials;
- Energy-saving solutions in buildings, transport, and industry;
- Carbon capture, storage, and utilization;
- Policies and incentives supporting renewables, energy efficiency, and energy market integration.
Dr. Giacomo Bruni
Dr. Antonio D'angola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy transition
- energy efficiency
- renewable energy systems
- energy transition technologies
- energy policies and incentives
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