Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

1997 - 2026

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Volume 237, issue C, 2026

A carbon-dioxide-based polygeneration system for long-term, large-scale and cross-regional renewable energy applications

Yao Zhao, Shengqi Huang, Jian Song, Christos N. Markides and Zhen Huang

Enhanced heat transfer in battery thermal management system: A comparative review of single-phase and two-phase approaches

Jianxun Huang, Jiedong Ye, Gangtao Liang and Ri Li

Wireless charging for electric vehicles: Navigating environmental trade-offs and infrastructure barriers towards sustainable transportation

Md. Moinul Alom Shovon, Tuhibur Rahman, M.S. Hossain Lipu and Talal Alharbi

Prospects of offshore hydrogen production in emerging economies

Segun Oladipupo, Timothy O. Laseinde, Olayinka S. Ohunakin, Lagouge Tartibu and Peter Alaba

Design-dependent carbon deposition in solid oxide electrolysis cells for CO2 electrolysis: A review

Noratiqah Sazelee, Chan Zhi Yang, Nurul Nabila Rosman, Nurul Jannah Ismail, Filzah Hazirah Jaffar, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Masniroszaime M. Zain, Wan Nurul Ffazida Wan Mustapa, Farahdila Kadirkhan, Kang Li and Jerry Y. Y. Heng

The Renewable energy-Food processing-Sustainability Nexus: A PRISMA review of innovations, sustainability metrics and indicators

Mwewa Chikonkolo Mwape, Stephen Kibet Kimutai, Charles Nzila, Ronald Kipkemoi Bett, Tony Washika, Mayen Deng, Peter Njurumba and Oliver Hensel

Soiling loss of photovoltaic panels: a review of atmospheric aerosol deposition experiments

Ziyue Wang, Jinbin Li and Jingkun Jiang

Long-term variations in solar resource under changing climate and air pollution: A review

Martin Wild, Xinyuan Hou and Joshua S. Stein

Thermal interface materials for thermal management of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor

Bingjie Zhu, Baoshan Xie and Chuanchang Li

Flash Joule heating: An ultrafast electrothermal strategy for solid waste valorization and resource recovery

Kaiyue Yin, Bing Deng, Rongtao Zhu and Fei Lian

Fracture flow channeling in enhanced geothermal systems: THMC feedback mechanisms and mitigation strategies

Hui Wu, Yujie Liu, Fan Zeng, Jiayan Ji, Arash Dahi Taleghani, Kun Zhang, Bin Chen, Sanbai Li, Jinjiang Zhang and Xianzhi Song

Securing sustainable digital substations: A survey on cyber vulnerabilities and defenses

Sugandh Pratap Singh, Ankush Sharma, Shalinka Jayatilleke, Swathi Battula and Damminda Alahakoon

Recent advances in flow field of vanadium redox flow batteries: Structure, performance and prospect

Bingyao Du, Yunlong Ji, Fang Niu, Zijie Zhu, Yuying Zhang, Xing Huang, Yingqiao Jiang, Long Jiang, Haichao Lv, Dongdong Ji and Zhangxing He

A comprehensive review of the sustainable utilization of cellulosic fruit peel biomass for advanced applications

Ponnusamy Renuka, T.A. Sukantha, P. Senthamaraikannan and S.S. Saravanakumar

A critical review on interplay of water-energy-carbon nexus and circular economy in petrochemical industry enabled by digital intelligence

Huanhuan Zhang, Zimin Tan, Lanlan Zheng, Bingjian Zhang, Chang He, Zhaoyuan Ma, Zhehao Liu, Zuming Liu and Qinglin Chen

Morphology-engineered MOFs for advanced carbon capture and separation: From zero-dimensional particles to three-dimensional architectures

Lirong Li, Chuang Meng, Chengwei Xu, Seonggon Kim and Feng Wang

Breaking the bottleneck of lignocellulosic biomass conversion: Recent advances and future directions of molten salt hydrates technology

Qiu Fu, Lina Shi, Lijian Sun, Tianyuan Xiao, Lingzhi Huang, Lu Wu, Wenchao Jia, Yanjun Tang and Haiqiang Shi

Towards a green methanol economy: A systemic review of the viability and challenges of repurposing oil pipelines for large-scale and long-distance methanol transport

Xinran Yu, Yao Duan, Chaofei Nie, Xiaolong Li, Rui Zhou, Wen Yang, Cailin Wang, Yuxing Li and Cuiwei Liu

Integrated dark fermentation and bioelectrochemical systems for waste valorization: A review of microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell coupling approaches

Yufei Fu, Yangfan Song, Hongwei Chen, Ao Lei, Yetao Zhang, Zhuo Liu and Xiang Wei

A review of design, optimization, deployment and environmental impact of axial hydrokinetic turbines

Mahesh Kumar Pandey, Shibayan Sarkar and Mamdud Hossain

Heterogeneous catalysis with metal nanomaterials for biodiesel production: Current progress and future prospects

Kashim Uddin, Pranjit Borah, Ruhit Kumar Paul and Md. Ahmaruzzaman

Unlocking the potential of microalgae biofertilizers: Analysis of nutrient supply mechanisms and industrial challenges for sustainable agriculture

Xianhui Xue, Yu Wang, Fengzheng Gao, Xinjuan Hu, Feifei Zhu, Xiangru Xu, Zhen Yu, Lei Huang and Shuhao Huo

Bamboo as a promising feedstock for bioethanol: A comprehensive review of technical, economic, and environmental considerations

Zhilian Liu, Linlin Cui, Min Huang, Shiyu Shao, Huiling Tao, Guanzhou Qiu, Zhu Chen, Li Shen and Hongbo Zhao

Precision bond cleavage in waste plastics: Directed catalytic upcycling

Yusong Zhang, Yinxiang Wang and Aimin Li

Biodiesel production using enzymatic catalysts with municipal sewage sludge efficiently reduces greenhouse gas and nitrogen oxide emissions: A review

Balaji Panchal, Chia-Hung Su, My Linh Nguyen, Chun-Chong Fu, Kim Ngan Ngo, Shao-Jung Wu and Horng-Yi Juan

Advances in plastic waste valorization: Economic and green perspectives

Vira Valasara, Sungil Yun, Jeong Chan Joo, Ung Lee, Bum Jun Park and Wangyun Won

Biomass and biochar pellet Gasification: a review of bridging feedstock heterogeneity, process parameters, and syngas quality

Xuesong Liu, Lu Ding, Guangsuo Yu and Fuchen Wang

Research progress on the performance of solar adsorption refrigeration systems

Qingyun Li, Yunfeng Wang, Xueping Tang, Wanrong Qi, Congyan Xu, Hongxu Dai, Lifu Kang and Ming Li

Analyzing the influence of large-scale weather patterns on renewable energy systems: A review

Kira Layer, Stephanie Gutmayer, Thorben Sandmeier, Jan Cermak, Jonas Ringger and Wolf Fichtner

Microwave pyrolysis for low-grade organic solid waste upcycling: State-of-the-art technologies and future perspectives

Lei Wang, Yirou Zhou, Lei Ren, Yanxia Guo, Kai Zhang, Fei Wang, Daniel C.W. Tsang, Fangqin Cheng and Jianhua Yan

A review of liquid hydrogen storage and transport equipment and associated key components: advances, challenges, and prospects

Hongyu Lv, Liang Chen, Ze Zhang, Shuangtao Chen and Yu Hou

System configurations and cross-domain interdependencies in offshore wind–hydrogen production

Kyungjung Cha, Chi-Wei Niu, José A.F.O. Correia and Lance Manuel

Cross-scale morphology and kinetics of fuel cell MEA components based on X-ray multimodal imaging technology: A review and outlook

Yuan Lu Lang, Hang Guo and Rui Jiao Yu

Natural hydrogen migration and accumulation as a blueprint for enhanced underground hydrogen storage

Lei Hou, Zhengxin Zhang, Derek Elsworth, Fengshou Zhang, Jishan Liu, Ruina Xu, Shimin Liu and Qian Sun

Frontier materials and methods for hydrogen storage toward sustainable energy applications

Gabriele Scarpati, Giovanni Di Ilio and Elio Jannelli

A review of the multi-scale LNAPL migration mechanisms and remediation in underground environments: From continuum-scale management to pore-scale trapping

Xining Xu, Yang Liu, Wenming Jiang, Kaimin Wu, Chenglong Bi and Chaojie Xu

High-temperature electrolytic ironmaking driven by green electricity toward decarbonization: Evaluating molten salt electrolysis and molten oxide electrolysis routes

Zhen Wang, Mengmeng Liu and Renze Xu

Prospective life cycle assessment for photovoltaic electricity systems: Key issues and recommendations

Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar, Miriam Helen Fsadni, Peng Wang, Stefano Cucurachi and Oliver Heidrich

Advanced phosphorus-containing gel polymer electrolytes: A multifunctional design for safe and high-performance lithium batteries

Mengdan Zhang, Longfei Han, Xiangming Hu, Yongchun Kan, Yuan Hu, Li Wang and Xiangming He

Developing koopmanism in power and energy systems: Theory, applications, and prospects

Yijun Xu, Qinling Wang, Lamine Mili, Mert Korkali, Wei Gu, Shuai Lu, Yubin Jia, Kai Liu, Zhaoyang Dong and Innocent Kamwa

Upcycling biomass tar into value-added chemicals via catalytic steam reforming: Mechanisms, catalyst evaluation and perspectives

Maolin Lang, Xuebing Li, Mingqian Cheng, Qian Wang, Yanyu Yang, Changnan Mei, Ming Xie, Qihong Cen, Zewei Liu and Bin Li

Production of medium-chain fatty acids from complex organic solid wastes via anaerobic fermentation: A review of mechanisms and fermentation efficiency optimization

Jingmin Zhang, Yuwei Cheng, Ruichuan Ma, Haichuan Pan, Ming Gao, Ying Wang, Yuan Lu, Peng Bai and Chuanfu Wu

Triply periodic minimal surfaces as catalyst carriers of compact reformers for hydrogen production and storage systems: recent advances and future perspectives

Viacheslav Papkov, Leonid Tartakovsky and Dmitry Pashchenko

Volume 236, issue C, 2026

Clarifying the difference between metabolic rate (W/m2) and metabolic equivalent (mL/kg/min)

Xi Zhu, Yanyan Li, Zhen Sun, Shengkai Zhao, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Shichao Liu and Yongchao Zhai

Corrigendum to “A whole life, national approach to optimize the thickness of wall insulation” [Renew Sustain Energy Rev 174 (2023) 113137]

X. Li and D. Densley Tingley

Datasets for wind energy forecasting applications: A comprehensive review and benchmarking perspective

Rabbaya Akhtar, Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo and Jukka Lassila

Integrated assessment of energy systems: opportunities and barriers for digital twin and artificial intelligence adoption

Joseph Amponsah, Kingsford Kweku Ansah, Daniel Baffour Asare and Fredrick Ofori Siameh

A systematic review of ammonia fuel supply chain readiness for maritime decarbonisation

Jiadong Shi, Xin Mao, Yuwan Li and Kum Fai Yuen

Advances in artificial intelligence-enabled fault detection for virtual power plants

Zhenlan Dou, Shiwen Zhao, Chunyan Zhang, Qiao Peng, Kang Li, Qiuwei Wu and Kailong Liu

Off-grid photovoltaic green hydrogen production systems: A review

Diego Montoya-Acevedo, Hugues Renaudineau, Catalina González-Castaño, Carlos Restrepo, Samir Kouro and Eduardo Crestana-Guardia

Semi-transparent radiative cooling materials and applications: A critical review

Wenhong Peng, Zhiying Sun, Qichen Liang, Jiayue Zhang, Jia Wei, Jinghong Liu and Cunhai Wang

LED thermal management: From fundamental mechanisms to deep learning-enabled multi-objective optimization for sustainable lighting

Zengguang Sui, Fuxiang Li, Haosheng Lin, Yunren Sui, Zhixiong Ding, Tiantian Liu and Wei Wu

What challenges are holding back the industrial adoption of solidified natural gas?

Huazheng Xu, Junchen Lv, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Lanlan Jiang, Liangliang Jiang, Bahman Tohidi and Yongchen Song

Towards multi-scale innovations in absorption heat pumps for low-grade waste heat recovery: ionic liquid working pairs, system optimization, and multi-scenario applications

Bo Tian, Haifan Wang, Ningbo Wang, Yanhua Guo, Li Liu, Tian You and Shuangquan Shao

Nexus of enhanced geothermal systems, carbon sequestration, and critical minerals recovery: A comprehensive review of multi-benefit subsurface resource platforms

Nitin Tiwari, Nur Sazzad Hossain Chy and Bijay Nepal

Impacts of net-zero emission target on the power sector: A systematic review from an integrated energy-environment-economy perspective

Weiwen Liu, Chao Ma, Haixing Gou, Ruixin Zhang, Weiren Huang and Keyu Guo

Plant-based mineral extraction: A review of phytomining as a nature-inspired solution

Kathryn Richardson and Amin Mirkouei

Progress in methanol engine exhaust aftertreatment catalysts: Activity sources and synergistic mechanisms from precious metals to transition metal oxides

Zhongqiang Bao, Zhenhua Ji, Zhenguo Li, Han Wu, Peng Zhang, Jiangru Pan, Hao Chen and Ding Luo

Review of challenges and collaborative pathways in each link of source-grid-load-storage-user from the perspective of new power system

Xuxin He

Review of tools and methods to identify excess heat potentials in district heating

Peter Sorknæs, Steffen Nielsen, Rasmus Magni Johannsen, Meng Yuan and Toke Kjær Christensen

Lipid feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production via hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) pathway: Current status and challenges in quality, sustainability, availability and cost

Min Ying Liow, Wei Zhe Ng, Cher Pin Song, Mun Yuen Chang, Siti Hanifah Adiiba, Chee Sheau Chien, Noorazlenawati Borhan, Azima Syafaini Japar, M. Syazwan M. Shukor, Tg M.Uzaini Tg Mat, M. Ghadaffi M. Nor and Eng-Seng Chan

Socio-economic impact assessment on PV and battery storage integrated energy technologies towards achieving net-zero carbon building

Akhtar I. Riwayat, M.A. Hannan, A.Z. Arsad, Pin Jern Ker, R.A. Begum and G. Jang