Efficient Energy Conversion Systems and Renewable Energy Generating Units: Techno-Economic Empowered Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 834
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Interests: electric motion drives; renewable energy sources; internet of things; control; automation; management; economics; businesses; micromotors; electromagnetic transport; fast speed trains; engineering education; women in sciences
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As Guest Editor, I invite you to submit papers to a Special Issue of the journal Sustainability on “Efficient Energy Conversion Systems and Renewable Energy Generating Units: Techno-Economic Empowered Sustainability”.
Energy conversion systems are favored in modern installations by energy industries for their efficiency as energy-saving motors in industrial applications due to their capacity to recover unused or dissipated electrical power and in renewable energy systems for their functionality as generators across a broad spectrum of wind speeds and solar luminosity, in both autonomous and interconnected power systems. Many specialized topics have appeared, such as control techniques, software and hardware, and a wide range of applications with increased technical and economic benefits. The Internet of Things-based control recently created new applications, such as remote monitoring and control in isolated areas and diagnosis and recovery in inaccessible or dangerous environments.
Other challenges include nuclear energy, balancing the system's power generation during variabilities of wind or solar energy, and replacing fossil fuels in thermal power generating units, which impacts energy economics, the costs of energy generated, and the reduction of CO2 emissions. According to sustainability goals, larger shares of renewable energy generation should be reached and integrated into the networks in the near-term years.
From another perspective, there are economic aspects related to technical infrastructures, retrofits of installations, control of energy conversion systems for efficient power supply to the end users, applicability of new specific technologies, and hybrid solutions. The role of sustainability is to ensure access to modern, affordable, reliable, and efficient energy conversion applications.
This Special Issue will focus on novel solutions and research trends dedicated to the sustainability of energy conversion systems, generation, motion, control, storage, recovery, economics, and management. The issue will include new technical developments, as well as economic evaluations.
You are invited to submit original contributions, including, but not limited to, the following keywords.
Prof. Dr. Maria Ioannides
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy efficiency for residential and industrial applications
- energy recovery, harvesting systems
- high-performance, high-efficiency electric drives
- renewable energy sources: hydrogen, nuclear, solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, tidal, hybrid systems
- modeling, simulation, control, multi-objective optimization
- monitoring, maintenance, diagnostics, fault detection, reliability, safety issues Internet of Things-based control of energy conversion systems, sensors, artificial intelligence in energy conversion systems, smart grid technologies, energy management, energy economics, trading, economic growth economic analysis, policy instruments, economic incentives for energy sustainable transition
- techno-economic assessment of efficient energy conversion technologies
- socio-economic impacts, energy access, and poverty alleviation related to renewable energy
- investments in clean energy infrastructure development
- energy engineering education for sustainability
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