Recent Advancements in Sustainable Solar Photovoltaic Power Technology

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue in the journal Sustainability: “Recent Advancements in Sustainable Solar Photovoltaic Power Technology”.

Energy plays a decisive role in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as employment growth, industry, innovation, and infrastructure, sustainable cities and communities, clean energy, and climate change. Moreover, solar energy has huge potential as a source of electricity, space heating and cooling, water heating, energy storage, solar cooking, drying, distillation, industrial process heat, and much more. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform with which researchers may present new research findings as well as reviews of significant work in the field of solar photovoltaic systems and critical issues in solar power generation technology. We are particularly interested in papers presenting the latest achievements and current problems in solar power generation technology and proposing corresponding solutions to key technical challenges in the utilization of solar power, pointing out future directions for the sustainable development of solar power generation technology. 

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Modeling, simulation, optimization, and performance assessment of sustainable solar technologies
• Environmental impacts, social aspects, policy, and economic aspects of sustainable solar technologies
• Energy storage technologies
• Solar based Hybrid PV/T systems
• Floating solar plants
• Solar in Agriculture
• End of Life cycle and Circular Economy of sustainable solar systems
• Solar applications in buildings
• Maximum power point tracking techniques
• Reconfiguration of solar PV system
• Parameter estimation of PV cells

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Prince Winston David
Dr. Praveen Kumar Balachandran
Guest Editors

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