Energies

Development and Validation of Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage

edited by

Jo Darkwa

and John Calautit

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1514 | Submission Open

Keywords: phase change material; molecular dynamics; AI; energy storage

(This special issue belongs to the Section G2: Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage)

Assessment of Energy and Electricity Market: Trends and Future Perspectives

edited by Jaroslav Petráš

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1418 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy integration; smart grids; energy policy; energy and electricity market trends; future perspective in energy and electricity market

(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)

Energy Security, Transition, and Sustainable Development

edited by Zhihua Chen

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1352 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy security; energy transition; energy supply chain; sustainable development; renewable energy; energy policy; climate change; low-carbon technologies; energy efficiency; socioeconomic impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)

Advanced Structural Health Monitoring for Energy Performance and Safety in Marine Renewable Systems

edited by Mingqiang Xu,

Hongchao Lu

and

Haojie Ren

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1312 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; marine structure; renewable energy system; dynamic response analysis; damage detection; safety assessment; system identification; machine learning; energy performance monitoring; condition-based maintenance; digital twin; lifetime energy output; offshore operation optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

Advances in Computational Intelligence for Control, Estimation, and Optimization in Power Systems, Electrical Machines, and Renewable Energy Systems

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submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1299 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational intelligence; artificial neural networks; fuzzy logic systems; genetic algorithms; swarm intelligence; intelligent control; state estimation; system identification; electrical drives and motor control; power electronics and converters; renewable energy systems (wind; solar; hybrid); smart grid technologies; energy storage optimization; electric vehicles and transportation electrification; microgrids and distributed generation; power system stability and forecasting; model predictive control; fault detection and diagnostics; data-driven energy management

Bio-Waste to Energy and Added Value Products—Challenges and Opportunities: 2nd Edition

edited by

Marcin Dębowski

,

Marcin Zieliński

and

Joanna Kazimierowicz

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1257 | Submission Open

Keywords: bio-waste characteristics and properties; bio-waste management from the municipal; agriculture; and food industry sector; fermentative methane and hydrogen production form bio-waste; biodiesel and bioethanol production; thermal transformation (gasification; pyrolysis; combustion; plasma technologies); bio-waste based multi-product biorefinery technologies; energy and material recycling form bio-waste; bio-waste recovery; circular economy in the bio-waste sector; bio-waste in fertilization and the animal feed sector; high-added value products form bio-waste; modelling and optimization in bio-waste processing; life cycle costing (LCC) and life cycle assessment (LCA) in bio-waste management

(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)

Advanced Load Forecasting Technologies for Power Systems

edited by

Kyung-Bin Song

and Young-Min Wi

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1252 | Submission Open

Keywords: load forecasting; machine learning; renewable energy; advanced forecasting model

(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)

Energy Transition: Interaction of Gas/Hydrogen and Electricity Systems

edited by

Andreas Poullikkas

and Venizelos Venizelou

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1208 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy transition; decarbonization; hydrogen integration; power-to-gas; energy storage; gas-hydrogen-electricity interaction; policy and regulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

Advancing Oil and Gas Resource Exploration, Extraction, and Utilization for Sustainability

edited by Chaofan Zhu,

Sunhua Deng

and

Long Xu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1206 | Submission Open

Keywords: oil and gas resources; exploration; extraction; utilization; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section H1: Petroleum Engineering)

Wind Power Generation and Wind Energy Utilization

edited by Yingying Zheng and Yongning Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1104 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind energy analytics; predictive maintenance; machine learning; digital twin; advanced sensor systems; SCADA data integration; structural health monitoring; grid stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)

Advanced Heating and Cooling Technologies for Sustainable Buildings

edited by

Tryfon C. Roumpedakis

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 984 | Submission Open

Keywords: heating; cooling; building sector; decarbonization; novel heat pumps

(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)

Reliability of Power Electronics Devices and Converter Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by Jun Wang, Jun Zhang, Kun Tan,

Jingwei Zhang

and Hengyu Yu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 942 | Submission Open

Keywords: power device; power converter; reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)

Novel Approaches in Waste Heat Recovery for District Heating Integration

edited by

Hrvoje Dorotić

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 908 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste heat recovery; energy efficiency; district heating systems; heat pumps; thermal storage; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

Wood-Based Bioenergy: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ahmed Koubaa

and

Flavia Lega Braghiroli

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: wood biomass; wood valorization; bioenergy; biofuel and biofuel applications; advanced bioenergy applications; wood thermochemical modification; calorific/energetic value; sustainability of wood bioenergy; bioenergy and climate change and greenhouse gas emissions

(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)

Advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS)

edited by

Martin Ma

, Hongsheng Wang and

Tao Bai

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 768 | Submission Open

Keywords: CCUS; CO2 storage/sequestration; CO2 transport; CO2 capture; modeling; machine learning; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)

Proton-Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells and Water Electrolysis

edited by

Dongqi Zhao

, Ze Zhou and

Xiaolong Wu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 752 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuel cells; water electrolysis; electrolyzers; hydrogen

(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)

Optimized Production of Bioenergy, Biofuels, and Biogas

edited by David Bessières

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 682 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater treatment; biodiesel; biohydrogen; anaerobic digestion; biochar; biogas upgrading

(This special issue belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)

Control and Fault Diagnosis of Multi-Energy Complementary Power Generation System

edited by Fengjiao Wu and Bin Wang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 645 | Submission Open

Keywords: water– wind– solar complementary power generation system; renewable power systems; optimization scheduling and operation of cascade hydropower stations; condition monitoring; vibration trend prediction; fault diagnosis; joint optimization; control strategy; full lifecycle assessment; deep learning; transfer learning; AI applications; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)

Design, Modelling and Analysis for Wireless Power Transfer Systems

edited by

Fei Cheng

, Ce Wang and

Zhiwei Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless power transfer; ambient energy harvesting; rectenna; antenna; rectifier; simultaneous wireless information and power transfer

(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)

Grid-Forming Converters in Power Systems

edited by Yunhui Huang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 543 | Submission Open

Keywords: grid-forming converters; modeling; design; stability analysis; control strategy; standard; applications; optimization techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)

Numerical Study of Waste and Exhaust Heat Recovery

edited by

Hosein Kalantari

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 496 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste heat recovery; exhaust heat recovery; numerical modeling; computational fluid dynamics; optimization; thermal analysis; thermoeconomics; industrial applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)

Advances in Power System and Green Energy

edited by

Zhaoyang Dong

,

Fushuan Wen

and

Chunhua Liu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 435 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart grid; renewable energy integration; energy storage; sustainable grids; power system resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

Power Electronic System Control and Energy Power Conversion Technology

edited by

Yu Wang

, Xiaoqiang Li and Zhan Shen

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 399 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy power system; power electronic equipment; stability; modeling and simulation; intelligent control strategy

(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)

Novel Research in Hydrogen System Optimization and Supply Chain Model

edited by

Hany Essa Zidan Farag

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 350 | Submission Open

Keywords: green hydrogen production and storage; alkaline and PEM technologies; hydrogen refueling stations; hard-to-abate sectors; supply chain; integrated power and hydrogen systems; modeling; control; and optimization; infrastructure planning; AI and machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)

Thermal-Related Issues of Li-Ion Batteries and Solutions

edited by Rui Zhao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open

Keywords: Li-ion battery; thermal management; thermal characterization; battery safety and testing; battery performance evaluation and improvement

(This special issue belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)

Advanced Thermal Management Systems for E-mobility

edited by

Abdullah Aljanabi

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric mobility; thermal management; BTMS; in-cabin climate; battery cooling techniques; Simulink; battery thermal efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)

Energy Transition and Economic Growth

edited by

Thanh Nguyen

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy transition; economic development; renewable energy; fossil fuels energy; technological innovation; green investments; carbon emission; energy efficiency; productivity; employment; income inequality; energy policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)

Advanced Thermal Energy Storage and Control Strategies for Integrated Energy Systems

edited by Zahra Hajabdollahi Ouderji

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal energy storage (TES); advanced control strategies; integrated energy systems; energy optimization; system integration; dynamic control systems; smart energy management; renewable energy integration; energy efficiency; sustainable energy systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)

Artificial Intelligence in Modern Power and Energy Systems

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; reinforcement learning; LLM; generative AI; smart grid; energy system; power system

(This special issue belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)

Electrochemical Energy Storage in Metal-Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors

edited by

Mojtaba Mirzaeian

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 241 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemical energy storage; metal-ion battery; metal-air battery; supercapacitor; electric double-layer capacitor; pseudo-capacitor; hybrid capacitor; electrode; electrolyte; binder; structural design and optimization; performance analysis; management and control; modeling; hybrid system and integration; energy storage mechanisms; energy density; power density; energy storage systems; technoeconomic and market analyses; prognostic and health management; AI and optimization algorithms in electrochemical energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)

Hydraulic System Simulation and Hydro Turbines for Pumped Storage and Hydroelectricity

edited by

Giovanna Cavazzini

,

Alberto Benato

, Giacomo Zanetti and Francesco Nascimben

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydropower; CFD; flexibility; hybridization; optimization; design; reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)

Seawater Hydrogen Production: A Blue Ocean Strategy for Green Energy Guided by Intelligent Technology and Predictive Modeling

edited by Horng-Jinh Chang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open

Keywords: seawater electrolysis; hydrogen production; green hydrogen; artificial intelligence; big data; predictive modeling; machine learning; electrocatalysis; process optimization; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)

Simulation and Optimization of Processes in Clean Combustion Systems

edited by

Olawole Kuti

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; machine language; chemical kinetics; clean combustion systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)

Challenges and Innovations in Stability and Control of Power Systems

edited by

Md. Abdus Salam

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: power system modelling and simulation; power system stability and control; transient stability; voltage stability; and frequency stability; wide-area monitoring systems (WAMS); renewable energy integration; grid resilience and smart grid technologies; grid modernization and machine learning for grid stability; real-time control and monitoring; power system dynamics; microgrids and distributed generation; inverter-based resources (IBRs); FACTS and HVDC technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)

Economic and Policy Tools for Sustainable Energy Transitions

edited by

Ofira Ayalon

and Ruslana Rachel Palatnik

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 138 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy transition; decarbonization; energy policy; energy– economy– environment nexus

(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)

Perspective Solutions for Sustainable Electric Propulsion: Novel Motors and Drive Technologies with Reduced or No Rare-Earth Materials

edited by

Ehsan Farmahini Farahani

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: rare-earth-free electric machines; stator permanent magnet motors; rotor-PM and hybrid excitation; demagnetization; thermal robustness; integrated motor– drive systems; sustainable electric propulsion; advanced drive technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)

Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems: 3rd Edition

edited by

Grzegorz Dudek

,

Dariusz Baczyński

and

Pawel Piotrowski

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; electrical power systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)

Electrical Equipment State Measurement and Intelligent Calculation: 2nd Edition

edited by

Jingang Wang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: modeling; design; fault diagnosis; hydrogen energy; engineering electromagnetic field application; non-contact measurement

(This special issue belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)

Sustainable Development of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies: 2nd Edition

edited by

Petros G. Savva

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuel cells; chemical engineering; hydrogen; green hydrogen technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)

AI, Big Data, and IoT for Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

edited by

Joao Ferreira

submission deadline 22 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1228 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); big data analytics; the internet of things (IoT); energy demand; smart grid; electric vehicle; distributed energy systems; energy storage systems; load management

(This special issue belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)

Simulation and Optimisation for Operational Decision-Making in Renewable Energy Supply Chains and Systems

edited by Ammar Al-Bazi

submission deadline 22 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 281 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy system optimisation ; renewable energy supply chains ; energy policy evaluation ; operational decision-making in energy systems ; AI-driven energy analytics ; sustainable energy operations ; internet of things (IoT) in energy systems ; mathematical optimisation in energy markets ; digital twins and Industry 4.0 for energy systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

Control, Operation and Stability of PMSM for Electric Vehicles

edited by

Suyeon Cho

submission deadline 23 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric machines; motor; inverter; drive; electric vehicle; xEV; control; design

(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)

Application of Swarm Intelligence for Multi-Energy Virtual Power Plants

edited by

Yang Gao

, Xiao Hu and

Sheng Chen

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4686 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual power plant; swarm intelligence; energy management; operation control; digital twin

(This special issue belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

edited by Ken Marsden

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: nuclear fuel cycle; fuel cycle; uranium mining; uranium milling; uranium conversion; fluorination; deconversion; uranium enrichment; fuel fabrication; spent fuel storage; nuclear fuel recycling; spent fuel repository

(This special issue belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)

New Advances in Material, Performance and Design of Solar Cells

edited by

Elisabetta Achilli

and

Mario V. Imperatore

submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4421 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar cells; synthesis; materials; post processing; simulations; characterization; application

(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)

Analysis of Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency of Electric Vehicles

edited by

Emilia Szumska

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 18646 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric vehicles; energy efficiency; energy management; regenerative braking; battery; powertrain optimization; vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Electric Vehicles)

Sustainable Built Environment: Energy Efficiency Technologies, Performance Evaluation and Indoor Environment Quality

edited by

Piero Bevilacqua

, Cynthia Cruickshank and

Miroslav Čekon

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 13431 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy efficiency in buildings; innovative materials; active faç ades; HVAC systems; high-performance building envelopes; green systems; Trombe walls; NZEB and ZEB; smart buildings; IoT in buildings; policies and strategies for the built environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)

Progress and Challenges in Solar Photovoltaic Materials and Intelligent Control

edited by

Mingxuan Mao

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10689 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar PV materials; artificial intelligence for solar energy systems; renewable energy; impacts of Solar PV on power systems; dynamical modeling and simulation; control of Solar PV arrays; economic dispatch; power quality enhancement; new concept of "PV+"

(This special issue belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)

Perovskite Solar Cells and Tandem Photovoltaics

edited by

Jongchul Lim

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5242 | Submission Open

Keywords: perovskite solar cells; tandem photovoltaics; charge transporting materials; interfacial engineering; optoelectronic properties

(This special issue belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)

Energy-Sharing Mechanisms and Renewable Energy Communities: State of Development, Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Barbara Marchetti

, Alice Mugnini and

Andrea Tortorelli

submission deadline 27 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2593 | Submission Open

Keywords: RECs; energy sharing; energy transition; smart grid; energy democratization

(This special issue belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)

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