Guest Editors
Prof. Dongran Song
Email: humble_szy@163.com
Affiliation: Central South Univeristy, China
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Research Interests: Wind power generation, photovoltaic power generation and their integration with other energy technologies, Artificial intelligence methods and their applications in new energy systems
Prof. Neven Duic
Email: Neven.Duic@fsb.unizg.hr
Affiliation: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Ivana Lucica 5, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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Research Interests: Energy policy and planning, Climate change mitigation, Energy economics, Sustainable development policy and resource planning, Research and innovation policy
Prof. Mohamed Talaat Moustafa
Email: m_mtalaat@eng.zu.edu.eg
Affiliation: Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt; Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Egyptian Chinese University, Egypt
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Research Interests: Renewable energy integration techniques, Energy conversion (solar-wind-wave energies) to electrical power generation, Artificial intelligence applications in power systems, IoT, and hybrid cloud-based data processing for power system monitoring in smart and microgrids
Dr. Antun Pfeifer
Email: antun.pfeifer@fsb.unizg.hr
Affiliation: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Ivana Lucica 5, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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Research Interests: Energy Planning, Modeling of Energy Systems, Renewable Energy, Energy Engineering, Energy Conversion
Summary
In the last few decades, the integration and improvement in the energy efficiency of several sectors regarding electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, waste, wastewater, industry, forestry and agriculture systems have become more and more pivotal. Considering the importance of a social system based on the sustainability concept and the efforts made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the SDEWES Conferences have become a significant platform for researchers in those areas to meet, discuss, share and disseminate new ideas.
This Special Issue aims to provide an important contribution by presenting the state of the art in sustainable energy supply solutions, ranging from the technical analyses of energy components on both the supply and demand sides to energy scenarios and pathways. This Special Issue particularly welcomes SDEWES papers that address energy systems without traditional sector boundaries between electricity, heating, cooling, transportation and industrial demands and that consider the integration and synergies between these sectors.
The 19th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems—the SDEWES Conference—was held on 8-12 September in Rome (Italy). The 4th LA Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) was held on 14–17 January 2024 in Vina del Mar, Chile. The 2nd AP Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) was held on 02-05 April 2024 in the Gold Coast, Australia. These SDEWES Conferences are dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of, and taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars.
Keywords
waste to energy, smart energy systems, energy policy, water–energy nexus, renewable energy resources for power and heat generation, district heating and/or cooling, advanced sustainable energy conversion and storage systems, biofuels and alternative fuels, hybrid and electric vehicles, cogeneration, trigeneration and polygeneration, electricity transmission and distribution, security of gas supply, energy efficiency in industry and building