Special Issue "Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 October 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Mohammad Jafari
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School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: power electronics converters; renewable energy technologies; smart micro-grids

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The environmental problems and global warming that we face today require long-term plans and serious actions to result in a sustainable development. In this regard, distributed generation of electrical energy based on the renewable energy resources is known as one the most promising solutions and has attracted a lot of research interest over the past few decades. Therefore, there is a direct relation between development of renewable energy systems and technologies and sustainable development. This Special Issue aims to provide a chance for researchers to exchange their novel ideas, technical innovations, and research outcomes related to the design, analysis, and development of different renewable energy technologies and also present the impacts on sustainable development. The topics include renewable energy technologies with applications in energy generation, distribution, management, and control. Acceptable technologies and resources include but are not limited to solar energy and solar converters and inverters, energy management and control techniques, wind and wave energy resources, fuel cells, geothermal energy, battery systems and energy storage technologies, electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging techniques, energy integration methods, etc. Authors with research papers focused on different methods of energy management and control techniques including fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, dynamic programming, linear programming, etc. are encouraged.

Dr. Mohammad Jafari
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • renewable energy technologies
  • solar
  • wind
  • fuel cell
  • battery
  • electric vehicles
  • energy management
  • control technique
  • energy integration

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Economizing the Uneconomic: Markets for Reliable, Sustainable, and Price Efficient Electricity
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4197; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084197 - 09 Apr 2021
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Current electricity markets do not efficiently achieve policy targets i.e., sustainability, reliability, and price efficiency. Thus, there are debates on how to achieve these targets by using either market mechanisms e.g., carbon and capacity markets, or non-market mechanisms such as offer-caps, price-caps, and [...] Read more.
Current electricity markets do not efficiently achieve policy targets i.e., sustainability, reliability, and price efficiency. Thus, there are debates on how to achieve these targets by using either market mechanisms e.g., carbon and capacity markets, or non-market mechanisms such as offer-caps, price-caps, and market-monitoring. At the same time, major industry changes including demand response management technologies and large scale batteries bring more elasticity to demand; such changes will impact the methodology needed to achieve the above mentioned targets. This work provides market solutions that capture all three policy targets simultaneously and take into account the above-mentioned industry changes. The proposed solutions are based on: (i) a model of electricity markets that captures all the above mentioned electricity policy targets; (ii) mechanism design and the development of a framework for design of efficient auctions with constraints (individual, joint homogeneous, and joint non-homogeneous). The results show that, within the context of the proposed model, all policy targets can be achieved efficiently by separate capacity and carbon markets in addition to efficient spot markets. The results also highlight that all three policy targets can be achieved without any offer-cap, price-cap, or market monitoring. Thus, within the context of the proposed model, they provide clear answers to the above-mentioned policy debates. Full article
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The Potential of Sustainable Biomass Producer Gas as a Waste-to-Energy Alternative in Malaysia
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 3877; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073877 - 01 Apr 2021
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It has been widely accepted worldwide, that the greenhouse effect is by far the most challenging threat in the new century. Renewable energy has been adopted to prevent excessive greenhouse effects, and to enhance sustainable development. Malaysia has a large amount of biomass [...] Read more.
It has been widely accepted worldwide, that the greenhouse effect is by far the most challenging threat in the new century. Renewable energy has been adopted to prevent excessive greenhouse effects, and to enhance sustainable development. Malaysia has a large amount of biomass residue, which provides the country with the much needed support the foreseeable future. This investigation aims to analyze potentials biomass gases from major biomass residues in Malaysia. The potential biomass gasses can be obtained using biomass conversion technologies, including biological and thermo-chemical technologies. The thermo-chemical conversion technology includes four major biomass conversion technologies such as gasification, combustion, pyrolysis, and liquefaction. Biomass wastes can be attained through solid biomass technologies to obtain syngas which includes carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. The formation of tar occurs during the main of biomass conversion reaction such as gasification and pyrolysis. The formation of tar hinders equipment or infrastructure from catalytic aspects, which will be applied to prevent the formation of tar. The emission, combustion, and produced gas reactions were investigated. It will help to contribute the potential challenges and strategies, due to sustainable biomass, to harness resources management systems in Malaysia to reduce the problem of biomass residues and waste. Full article
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