Integrated Energy Storage System for Decarbonization
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 760
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As global energy systems undergo unprecedented change, the need for flexible, efficient, and deeply decarbonized energy infrastructure has never been more urgent. The rapid growth in renewable energy, especially wind, solar, and sustainable biomass, has brought significant variability and intermittency to modern power grids. To maintain reliability, stability, and sector-wide integration, advanced energy storage solutions are becoming a key part of the clean energy transition.
Integrated energy storage systems (IESS) are now seen not just as auxiliary units that balance supply and demand. They are becoming versatile assets that support Power-to-X (PtX) pathways, carbon utilization, sector coupling, thermal integration, and system-wide optimization. Recent research—including hybrid Power-to-Gas-to-Power (PtGtP) cycles, waste heat recovery architectures, biomass-driven thermodynamic cycles, oxygen and methane storage configurations, and transient energy system modeling—shows that storage technologies can actively enable multi-sector decarbonization.
This Special Issue aims to gather the latest scientific and technological advancements in integrated energy storage systems that facilitate deep decarbonization across electricity, heating, transportation, and industrial sectors. Contributions exploring thermodynamic innovation, system integration, sector coupling, techno-economic evaluation, experimental validation, and policy frameworks are all encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Power-to-X (PtX) pathways, including Power-to-Gas (PtG) and Power-to-Liquid (PtL), among others.
- Power-to-Gas-to-Power (PtGtP) systems for long-duration storage.
- Integration of renewable energy with advanced conversion cycles.
- Integrated biomass, waste-to-energy, and carbon-capture-based storage systems.
- Hybrid energy storage cycles combining chemical, thermal, and electrical storage.
- Waste heat recovery, cogeneration, and multi-product energy hubs.
- Seasonal storage solutions using hydrogen, methane, ammonia, or synthetic fuels.
- High-pressure oxygen and hydrogen storage for advanced cycle integration.
- Thermodynamic, exergy, and system integration analyses.
- Dynamic and transient modeling of coupled storage–conversion systems.
- Optimization, sensitivity analysis, and techno-economic evaluation.
- Sector coupling: electricity–gas–heat–transport integration.
- Water–energy–carbon nexus and desalination integrated with storage systems.
- Carbon utilization and synthetic fuel production for net-zero systems.
- Grid flexibility, resilience, and system-level decarbonization strategies.
- Policy frameworks and transition pathways for large-scale renewable storage adoption.
Dr. Seyed Mojtaba Alirahmi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- integrated energy storage
- power-to-X (PtX)
- power-to-gas-to-power (PtGtP)
- renewable energy integration
- waste heat recovery
- hydrogen
- methanation
- multi-sector decarbonization
- techno-economic analysis
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