Renewable Energy Conversion and Management

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to publish your latest research results in this Special Issue of the Sustainability journal on Renewable Energy Conversion and Management.

The climate change and the continuously increasing demand in the energy sector all over the world require urgent actions for the widespread use of renewable energy sources in the effort of nations to increase the total share of energy obtained from renewables. The efficient energy production and energy intelligent management are key issues in meeting the global goal of 100% energy from renewables by 2050. Consequently, the research in the renewable energy field is trying to identify solutions to respond to all the challenges that the world is facing nowadays and in the future in the energy sector. Thus, topics like better use of the renewable energy potential, accurate forecasting, increase of energy conversion efficiency, the use of computational intelligence techniques in energy management are several goals which definitely pose a major challenge to researchers and designers in the field. Besides, sun, wind, water, biomass and geothermal energies are the main sources of renewable energy, some of them being unpredictable and site-dependent. The research in the field of hybrid energy systems tries to overcome these disadvantages and to offer solutions both for on-grid and off-grid applications.

This Special Issue is aiming to gather new research results and future trends in the field of renewable energy conversion and management, covering a broad range of topics related to the renewable energy sources, the energy conversion system design and optimization and the energy management, but not limited at:

• Renewable energy potential and forecasting
• Design and optimization of renewable energy systems
• Renewable hybrid energy systems
• Renewable energy conversion efficiency
• Energy management
• Renewable energy communities.

Review papers and articles based on multidisciplinary research are also encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Codruta Jaliu
Prof. Dr. Mircea Neagoe
Prof. Dr. Radu Gabriel Săulescu
Guest Editors

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