A Pathway to Trace the Sustainable Development with a Strong Focus on Energy Storage and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Ensuring sustainability in all aspects is the unprecedented challenge that humanity is witnessing in the pursuit of achieving Sustainable Development Goals. A selection of research highlights that sustainable energy is the primary foundational approach to underpin various resilient strategies. However, contemporary approaches to promote the penetration of clean energy into the core of society are hindered by conundrums including intermittency and geographical availability. Energy storage prevails as a burgeoning solution for the aforementioned problem; thus, contributions to this domain will, in turn, bolster the vision of energy sustainability.   

Hence, this Special Issue seeks to contribute to the Sustainable Development Agenda through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary knowledge for identifying robust, efficient, economical, and effective approaches that can buttress the role of energy storage systems in energy sustainability. We also plan to give some special attention to exploring the role of multi-criteria decision-making frameworks in renewable energy systems. We therefore invite papers on novel technical developments, reviews, case studies, analyses, as well as assessment papers from different disciplines, which can potentially foster the energy sustainability progress in the society. This Special Issue will accept original/review research pertaining to the novelty and innovative approach that addresses topics including (but not limited to):    

1. Thermal energy storage systems in buildings;
2. Energy storage systems for power plants;
3. Energy storage materials;
4. Novel energy management approaches;
5. Photovoltaics and its integration with energy storage systems;
6. Multi-criteria decision-making frameworks for RE assessment and load management;
7. Electric Vehicles—efficiency enhancement, affordability analysis, and impact on various domains;
8. Techno economic perspectives on sustainable and renewable energy transformations;
9. Attainment of SDG 7 through promoting more energy relevant policies;
10. Role of energy storage for sustainable development;
11. Electric Vehicle and hydrogen fuels towards sustainable development;
12. Role of Big data analytics and Deep learning Models in attaining sustainability.

Prof. Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan
Prof. Dr. Mithulan Nadarajah
Guest Editors

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