Sustainable High-Efficiency Solar Utilization and Integration Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 February 2027 | Viewed by 460
Editors
Interests: integrated high-efficiency solar energy utilization; pumped thermal energy storage; new energy technology
Interests: sustainability; solar energy; renewable energy technology; clean conversion and utilization of energy; design and development of new energy materials and devices; thermochemical conversion of organic wastes; thermodynamic analysis and optimization of energy systems; solar thermal utilization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solar energy is one of the most abundant and promising renewable energy resources for achieving global sustainability and carbon neutrality goals. However, the inherently intermittent, spatially distributed, and multi-form nature of solar energy poses significant challenges to its high-efficiency utilization and large-scale integration into modern energy systems. Advancing sustainable and high-efficiency solar utilization, therefore, requires not only improvements in conversion technologies but also systematic integration strategies across multiple energy carriers, storage technologies, and application scenarios.
This Special Issue, entitled “Sustainable High-Efficiency Solar Utilization and Integration Technologies,” aims to provide a comprehensive platform for presenting recent advances in solar energy utilization technologies and their integration within complex energy systems. The focus is on enhancing overall system efficiency, operational flexibility, and sustainability through innovative system design, modelling, control, and optimization approaches. Both fundamental studies and applied research addressing solar energy conversion, integration, and hybridization with other renewable and storage technologies are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High-efficiency solar energy conversion and utilization technologies;
- Sustainable solar energy utilization in integrated and hybrid energy systems;
- Solar-assisted energy systems, including heating, cooling, and heat pump-based solutions;
- Integration of solar energy with energy storage and other renewable energy technologies;
- Modeling, simulation, and optimization of solar-integrated energy systems;
- Operation, control, and energy management of solar-based energy systems;
- Distributed and intelligent solar energy systems;
- Energy storage technologies supporting solar energy integration;
- Performance evaluation and sustainability assessment of solar energy systems.
We welcome original research articles and review papers that address both theoretical developments and practical applications, with an emphasis on sustainable design, high-efficiency performance, and system-level integration. This Special Issue seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, engineers, and practitioners, and to contribute to the advancement of solar energy technologies that support a resilient and sustainable energy future.
Dr. Yikai Wang
Dr. Jialing Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar energy utilization
- high-efficiency solar systems
- solar energy integration
- solar-assisted energy systems
- integrated energy systems
- renewable energy integration
- energy storage technologies
- solar thermal systems
- sustainable energy systems
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