Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): L. Kazmerski

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Volume 230, issue C, 2026

A dataset and protocol to enhance power system models with fossil-fuel-fired electricity generating units

Xiaodong Zhang, Dalia Patino-Echeverri and Mingquan Li

Physical solutions for hydrogen storage: Technological challenges, safety assessments, and environmental aspects

Tabassom Mirshekarzadeh, Shahin Akbari, Mohammad Sharifian, Arman Mirshekarzadeh, Fatemeh Salehi and Mohamad Ali Bijarchi

The Africa-Europe energy interconnection: Assessing green hydrogen suppliers for France

Paul Gerard, Ahmad Rafiee, Mario Montalvan, Osamh Mahdi, Havvanur Feyza Kaya and Kaveh Khalilpour

Critical evaluation of factors influencing the specific energy consumption of electrically driven membrane separation technologies

Selvaraj Chinnathambi and Vasileios Kyriakou

Application of deep learning in wind, solar, and ocean energy: An analysis of prediction, optimization, and operation & maintenance

Zhiwei Song, Yajing Gu, Hongwei Liu, Tian Zou, Yonggang Lin and Kenan Ye

Toward sustainable data center operation: A review on existing infrastructures, integrated smart energy management frameworks, and future perspectives

Amit Kumar and Naran M. Pindoriya

Multi-dimensional resilience modelling framework for offshore wind farms under operational and extreme disruptions

Jingyi Wu and C. Guedes Soares

Wind turbine blade damage: A systematic review of detection, diagnosis, performance impact, and lifecycle health management

Bingchuan Sun, Kim Tiow Ooi and Mingxu Su

Solar interfacial evaporators: from regulatory mechanisms to emerging applications

Yanlin Zhao, Junzhuo Teng, Zhixin Wang, Zitong Ren, Wei Xu, Shuangshuang Wu, Jingyao Zhao, Likun Gao, Stavros Avramidis and Xiang Chi

Progress and prospects of cold thermal energy storage for liquid air energy storage systems – A critical review

Alessio Tafone, Emiliano Borri, Luisa F. Cabeza, Callaghan, Odhran O’, Philip Donnellan, Afshin Mashayekh, Rohit Kothari, Fredrik Haglind, Dacheng Li, Lejin Xu, Yulong Ding, Yongliang Li, Lizhong Yang, Alessandro Romagnoli, Aleksandra Dzido and Piotr Krawczyk

Light-driven microbial factories for CO2 conversion to valuables: Recent advancements in photo-microbial electrosynthesis through integrated graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)

Swati Das, Narnepati Krishna Chaitanya, Md Tabish Noori, Klaus Hellgardt and Booki Min

Separated liquid-vapor pathways for pool boiling enhancement with ultra-high heat flux: a critical review

Xiao Yuan, Jing Su, Yanping Du, Yu Lin, Jinwen Shi and Chao Wang

Climate change and the water–food–energy nexus: A comprehensive review of sustainability challenges and innovations

Altyeb Ali Abaker Omer

Characteristics, design, and optimization of earth-air heat exchangers: A review

Amir Imanloozadeh and William David Lubitz

Energy flexibility strategies in urban areas: A sustainable energy consumption and production balance under a stochastic framework

Gianfranco Cipolla, Annamaria Buonomano, Giovanni Pernigotto and Andrea Gasparella

The role of renewable energy in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: A systematic review and conceptual framework

Abdulaziz I. Almulhim and Ismaila Rimi Abubakar

Advancing hydrogen production: A comprehensive review of wastewater reforming techniques, feedstocks, and opportunities

Robert E.F. Cincotta, Charles Nye and Xiaokun Yang

Advancing low-Pt catalyst layer design from multi-scale to cross-scale synergy optimization for high-performance and durable proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Wei-Wei Yang, Zhao Liu, Li-Dong Song, Yi-Wan Lin, Jian-Fei Zhang and Zhi-Guo Qu

Platinum single atom alloy-based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Minmin Lai, Rui Wang, Zhilin Chen, Ning Lu, Feiyu Jian, Yihao Long, Liang He, Hui Tang, Jilin Xu, Kakarla Raghava Reddy, Ch Venkata Reddy and Tejraj M. Aminabhavi

Green hydrogen: A key energy carrier replacing fossil fuels across multiple sectors

Mohamed G. Gado

A comprehensive review of thermal management strategies in PEM fuel cells: From conventional cooling methods to advanced passive and hybrid solutions for sustainable energy application

Sare Mitincik and Mustafa Yusuf Yazici

A comprehensive review of green hydrogen production via electrolysis and thermolysis, and the prediction of potential natural hydrogen (aka gold hydrogen) presence using machine learning

Sara Kawrani, Ossama Abi Almona, Mira Ibrahim, Moustafa Ibrahim and Emil Obeid

Addressing challenges induced by transactive energy: Implications for network cost allocation policy in distribution systems

N. Noorfatima, J. Kong and J. Jung

A state-of-the-art review of adaptive, predictive, synergistic, and degradation-aware power variability smoothing techniques in photovoltaic power plants

Ammar Atif Abdalla, Mohamed Shawky El Moursi, Tarek H.M. El-Fouly and Khalifa Hassan Al Hosani

Heat pipe integration in vapour compression refrigeration: Refrigerant-side enhancement, air-side heat recovery, and electronics thermal management

Ali J. Talib, Kok Hwa Yu, Adel A. Eidan, Keng Wai Chan and Ihab Hasan Hatif

A critical review of the techno-economic feasibility and sustainability of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS): Global insights and strategic pathways

Zayed Bin Sultan and James J. Sheng

Catalytic horizons in rechargeable lithium–CO2 batteries: Progress, challenges, and future directions in cathode materials and catalysts

M. Masoudi, Q. Cai, R.C.T. Slade, D. Commandeur and S. Gadkari

Electricity–carbon coupling markets: mechanisms, models and digital enablers for low-carbon power system

Pengcheng Du, Tianhao Liu, Dongdong Zhang, Yu Du, Fannie Kong, Chao Huang, Haisen Zhao and Hui Hwang Goh

Concrete-based thermal energy storage (CTES) for concentrated solar power plants and built environment

Nghia P. Tran and Tuan D. Ngo

Photothermal heating applications in buildings: Development, challenges and optimization

Rui Tang, Wing-Cheung Law, Yang Lu, Cheuk Lun Chow and Denvid Lau

Advanced applications of triboelectric sensors across human body regions

Shunhuan Hong, Yiyang Duan, Yan Zhang, Qingli Xu and Ping Wang

A review on recent developments towards hydrogen evolution reaction for covalent organic frameworks

Awais Ali Aslam, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Sadaf ul Hassan, Majid Niaz Akhtar, Murid Hussain, Sania Amjad, Alia Farooq and Aqeel Ahmad Khan

Next-generation paper electrodes: Linking fabrication techniques and high-performance materials for sustainable energy devices

Iqra Rabani, Gul E Arzu, Sensu Tunca, Young-Soo Seo and Karolien De Wael

Artificial intelligence-based design optimization for wind turbines: A comprehensive review of its methodologies, applications, and challenges

Jianhao Fang, Weifei Hu, Jiale Liao, Xinyu Chen, Haotian Mo, Chang Jin, Yongshui Luo and Zhenyu Liu

Deactivation mechanisms and anti-deactivation strategies of copper-based catalysts in selective catalytic reduction reactions: A review

Bin Jia, Jun Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Ying Wang, Yuqiong Zhao, Guoqiang Li and Guojie Zhang

Clean synthesis gas preparation as a building block using nano-catalysts considering products

Kyoung-Jin Kim, Kyung-Won Jeon and Hyun-Seog Roh

Phase change materials for low-temperature cold chain logistics: Advances, challenges, and eco-friendly solutions

Muhammad Shahzad, Rawaid Ali and Ming Li

Reinforcement learning-based optimization framework for carbon emission reduction and circularity enhancement in buildings

Bigyeong Shin, Jihee Nam and Sumin Kim

Accelerating widespread adoption of direct air capture based on system perspective: Thermodynamic limits, geographical deployment, and clean energy integration

Chunfeng Li, Shuai Deng, Xiangkun Elvis Cao and Shuangjun Li

Hybrid enhancement of SOFC anodes: Integrating modulated electrical double layers and phase change materials for carbon-resilient energy conversion

Surajudeen Sikiru, John Oluwadamilola Olutoki, Md Siddikur Rahman, Muthusamy Kandasamy and Thamer Alomayri

Lithium mining 3.0: Towards a sustainable technology framework for transforming salt-lake brines into clean energy resources

Huijun Xi, Zhendong Yang, Zhenghua Liu, Yang Tang, Sheng Yang, Juanjuan Liu, Mikolaj Iwan, I.A. Ibrahim and Huaqun Yin

Generation classification of solar thermal technologies

Varun Pratap Singh and Craig McGregor

Literature review on the enhancement of thermal performance of straight wickless heat pipes (two-phase closed thermosyphon): Geometry, surface, and internal structure modifications

Nanang Apriandi, Berkah Fajar Tamtomo Kiono, Mukhsinun Hadi Kusuma, Khoiri Rozi and Anhar Riza Antariksawan

Inertia emulation control schemes for voltage source converter-dominated grids: A review

Zhaoshun Deng, Lujie Yu, Jiebei Zhu, Zhipeng Shen, Yifan Hu and Federico Milano

Review of talkative power conversion from power electronics and communication perspectives

Yibo Wang, Man-Chung Wong and Chi-Kong Wong

A conceptual framework for integrating social, economic, and environmental dimensions in the selection of hydrogen production pathways

S. Moreno, E. Van den Auwelant, P. Haro and B. Alonso-Fariñas

Editorial: Energy transitions in times of crisis: A social science perspective

Jörg Radtke and Weert Canzler

Sustainable energy strategy: Application of green silicon sources in lithium-ion battery anode materials

Chen Feng, Xiaoxia Ma, Dengming Xu, Yuxin Meng and Dianping Zhang

Agrivoltaics as a systems innovation: Multi-dimensional benefits from global studies across climate, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems

Uzair Jamil and Joshua M. Pearce

Thermal-hydraulic performance of heat exchanger mini- and micro-channels with single-phase flows. A comprehensive review and a comparative study

Petro Kapustenko, Zdravko Kravanja, Igor Plazl, Petar Sabev Varbanov, Boton Bertok, Olga Arsenyeva, Andreja Nemet, Leonid Tovazhnyanskyy and Ting Pan

A review on reverse electrodialysis for energy conversion: Operational parameters and multi-parameter coupling effects

Jinhui Zhou, Cunlu Zhao, Yingtao Sun, Runchen Zhao, Zhigang Li, Chun Yang, Qiuwang Wang, Dongxu Ji, Gengzhi Sun and Yanmei Jiao

Microchannel heat sinks for cold plate liquid cooling in data centers: Advances, evaluations and prospects

Feng Zhou, Wenlong Gu and Guoyuan Ma

Review of recent advancing pool boiling heat transfer through surface engineering

Yuheng Zhang, Guopeng Chen, Kai Du, Shuo Li, Junhao Liu, Fengxiang Chen, Xingchi Jiang, Glen McHale and Shangzhen Xie

Solid waste-derived membranes for CO2 capture: Material design, separation mechanism, and techno-environmental evaluation

Jincheng Ma, Qihong Cen, Binbin He, Wang Du, Longgui Xie, Zhiying Guo, Nanqi Ren, Xia Yin, Xiaofeng Huang, Ran Ao, Ping Ning, Liping Ma and Quxiu Dai