Innovative Trends on Safety of Renewable Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The need for a rapid transition to clean energy is enabling innovative developments in the renewable sector. Businesses and industries are moving towards renewable energy to reduce emissions, energy costs, and improve sustainability, as steps towards the net-zero target. The major renewable energy trends include sustainable materials, energy-efficient integrations, and solutions that overcome the intermittency in renewable energy production. Safety and reliability are the primary challenges associated with such multi-layer renewable technologies, from basic-level devices such as sustainable materials, energy storage, and convertors, to upper-level machines, monitoring system control, and grid stability. Hence, ensuring the safety of renewable technologies at each level becomes essential.  

This Special Issue aims to investigate emerging technologies to improve the safety and reliability of renewable energy systems by employing advanced materials, innovative design, and functional control systems. The safety of renewable technologies is a dynamic and evolving field, and this Special Issue has a wide scope and discipline focusing on trends to improve safety and reliability of renewable technologies, where theoretical and experimental contributions are welcome. Contributions in the following aspects are particularly welcome:

• Advanced materials for energy conversion, solar energy, energy storage, lightweight structures, fire resistant and harsh environmental conditions;
• Innovative mechanical design for safety management, minimizing failure, thermal management, fire shielding;
• System integration and stability for power generation, energy transmission, fault diagnosis, and environmental monitoring.

Dr. Mohammad Nasr Esfahani
Dr. Yihua Hu
Dr. Mohammed Alkahtani
Dr. Jiadong Lu
Dr. Kai Ni
Guest Editors

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