Sustainable Energy Policy and Regulation: Latest Advances and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

In the contemporary fast-paced societal environment, technological solutions and scientific advances have to be implemented in a timely and rational manner in order for society to reap their benefits. The importance of their implementation is accentuated by the pressing need to ensure sustainable energy production and utilization in order to mitigate, to the most extensive degree still possible, environmental concerns and to ensure development in line with the principles of sustainable use of resources, intergenerational and intragenerational equity, as well as integration of sustainability in common agendas of the policymakers and regulators.

In this Special Issue, we turn our attention beyond technology and focus on the policy and regulatory aspects of the proliferation of sustainable energy, using an interdisciplinary approach. This Special Issue covers the following main topics:

• Sustainable energy policy;
• Sustainable energy regulation;
• Economics of sustainable energy use;
• Energy use in industry;
• Sustainability analysis metrics (theory and applications);
• Techno-economic analyses of sustainable energy use;
• Energy and climate change;
• Energy law on sustainability;
• Solar and wind energy policy;
• Geothermal energy policy;
• Administrative proceedings concerning sustainable energy;
• Digitalization and AI policy in sustainable energy;
• Sustainable energy policy, equity, and justice;
• Sustainable development;
• Smart-grids policy;
• Smart cities and urban management.

Potential authors are invited to submit papers containing original research related to the latest advances and prospects in the broader field of sustainable energy policy and regulation. We look forward to high-quality research presented rigorously. Findings presented in this Special Issue will contain the latest prospects and advances in the scientific research of sustainable energy policy and regulation, while at the same time hopefully aid policymakers and regulators to ensure more efficient implementation of sustainable technological solutions and thus aid in the proliferation of sustainable energy technology. 

Prof. Dr. Jurij Toplak
Dr. Luka Martin Tomažič
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.