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Renewable Energy Forecasting: Innovations and Breakthroughs
This special issue belongs to the section “Power and Energy Forecasting“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your paper for consideration in MDPI's Special Issue entitled “Renewable Energy Forecasting: Innovations and Breakthroughs”. This Special Issue will focus on new concepts of modeling and forecasting in the energy market in the context of renewable energy sources, identifying innovations in this area and innovative solutions. An additional topic of this Special Issue is the problem of econometrics modeling in the context of the energy market.
The main goal of this Special Issue is to develop ideas in the field of modeling and forecasting in the field of renewable energy sources. Therefore, its topic focuses on the use of econometric methods in forecasting the phenomena in question. The Special Issue mainly focuses on innovations and breakthroughs in the field of renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Papers may cover global, regional, national, or even local topics that are of wider significance. Within this broad spectrum, topics of particular interest include the following:
- Energy supply security and energy demand;
- The quality and efficiency of energy services;
- Energy technology innovation and diffusion;
- Energy modeling and forecasting;
- Energy analysis;
- Energy planning and energy management;
- Financial and behavioral aspects of the energy market;
- Risks, returns, and investment across energy sectors;
- Sustainable development.
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Mentel
Dr. Xin Zhao
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-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forecasting 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 1800 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.
Keywords
- energy demand
- energy optimization
- energy modeling
- energy efficiency
- energy supply
- energy market risk
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