Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): L. Kazmerski

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Volume 233, issue C, 2026

Corrigendum to ‘Eco-efficient lime/pumice mortars with sheep wool for heritage restoration: Life cycle and energy savings’ [Renew Sustain Energy Rev 215 (2025) Article 115624 1–23]

Rüya Kılıç Demircan, Muhammet Ahmet Mecit Işık, Ahmet Benli, Gökhan Genç, Figen Beyhan and Gökhan Kaplan

Corrigendum to “A review of passive building thermal management with phase-change materials” [Renew Sustain Energy Rev 211 (2025) 115334]

Aitonglu Zhang, Yaxuan Xiong, Yanqi Zhao, Yuting Wu, Qian Xu and Yulong Ding

Corrigendum to ‘Preparation, characterization, and selection of nano-assisted phase change materials for thermal management and storage applications’ [Renew Sustain Energy Rev 210 (2025) 115195]

Anto Zacharias, Rajesh Baby, Hanna J. Maria and Sabu Thomas

System integration solutions for urban, industrial, and renewable energy transitions

Vladimir Z. Gjorgievski, Natasa Markovska, Benedetto Nastasi, Tomislav Puksec, Neven Duic and Soteris A. Kalogirou

A critical review and future perspectives: How to define, assess, improve, and optimize the energy resilience for building energy systems by generalized flexible energy resources?

Chengyu Zhang, Yuan Su, Jiaming Wang, Yacine Rezgui, Zhiwen Luo, Yifan Wu, Chang Sun and Tianyi Zhao

MXene-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions: Progress, challenges, and future perspectives

Shamaila Fatima, Sheryar Abid, Imtiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Z. Iqbal, S. AlFaify and Syed Rizwan

The underrepresented role of prospective global supply chains in the life cycle optimization of energy systems

Margarita A. Charalambous, Daniel Vázquez, Ana I. Torres and Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez

Advances and perspectives in material-based hydrogen storage technologies considering materials challenges and future directions

Ujwal Shreenag Meda and Om Madan Raikar

Recent advancement in transition metal selenide electrodes for high-performance supercapacitors: A comprehensive review

Avinash C. Mendhe, Soumen Mandal, Neha S. Barse, Amol S. Vedpathak, Minkyu Sun, Hyun Sung Noh, Younghoon Kim, Taejoon Park and Haigun Lee

Extending battery lifecycles: A holistic review of second-life lithium-ion technology in sustainable energy systems from assessment to emerging trends

Md Shahriar Nazim and Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan

Advances and challenges in cryogenic liquefied hydrogen (LH2) maritime transportation: Thermal performance, tank design, boil-off gas management, and techno-economic considerations

MD. Shajratul Alam Towhid and Sumaiya Binte Hossain

Surface and interface engineering in two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenides for aqueous zinc-ion batteries: Fundamentals, advances and perspectives

Linghao Sun, Chengcheng Xiao, Jiashuai Zhao, Yuhang Han, Shaowei Chen and Lingyun Chen

A game theory approach for the construction of a green and sustainable power grid

Ali Hamidoğlu, Liubov Sysoeva, Russell Milne and Hao Wang

Providing ancillary services by aggregated distributed energy resources of active distribution systems for the upstream grid: A critical review

Md Sazal Miah, Rakibuzzaman Shah, Muhammad Usman Aslam, Nima Amjady, Sara Walker, Vladimir Terzija, Shahab Dehghan and N. Mithulananthan

A review of hydropower reservoir GHG estimation methods

Manu Seth, Maria Ubierna Aparicio, Branka Nakomcic-Smargdakis, Maja Brboric, Elisa Calamita, Tina Dasic, Cristina Diez Santos and Epari Ritesh Patro

Design and engineering of gas–liquid–solid interfaces in rechargeable zinc–air batteries

Lei Yan, Xingyu Peng, Zhongyue Ge, Changfa Guo and Yong Hu

Transformation of China's petroleum pipeline industry in the renewable energy era: A review

Renfu Tu, Qi Liao, Yingming Liu, Hao Zhang, Mingyue Huang, Yiwei Su, Yiming Qu, Yongtu Liang and Haoran Zhang

A new vision in thermal insulation: A comprehensive review of silica aerogel coatings with sustainable potential

Ruihong Sun, Yu Liu and Fujuan Liu

A review of collaborative optimization in demand response enabled by non-intrusive load monitoring

Yu Liu, Kefan Chen, Yuting Wei, Ye He, Xin Zhao and Shan Gao

Corrigendum to ‘Hybrid solar technologies: A critical review of PV/T systems, cooling methods, and performance trends’ [Renew Sustain Energy Rev 232 (2026), page 116827]

Al Baraa Tarnini, Serter Atabay and Mehmet Fatih Orhan

Advancements and applications of novel waterless and contactless cleaning technologies for solar panels

Jiafeng Li, Hao Zhu, Wei Xu and Kedao Liu

Advances in AI-enhanced model predictive control for heat pumps: A comprehensive review

Zakir Hussain, Hyemin Kim, Nayoung You and Honghyun Cho

Fabrication of microchannel heat sinks using additive manufacturing: A review

Guangzhao Yang, Yong Tang, Yalong Sun, Gong Chen and Heng Tang

Volume 232, issue C, 2026

Machine learning-based state estimation in electrical power and multi-energy systems: A comprehensive review

Zhaoyang Jin, Dragan Ćetenović, Mile Mitrović, Victor Levi, Vladimir Bečejac, Phil Taylor and Vladimir Terzija

Kinetics of chemical pretreatment and pre-hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass for sugar release, Part I: pseudo-homogeneous modeling

Yonglong Wang, Shao-Yuan Leu and Xuebing Zhao

Recent advances in abiotic and biotic cathodes for microbial energy generation systems

Wilgince Apollon, Iryna Rusyn, Willis Gwenzi, Yamini Mittal, Nhamo Chaukura, Chikashi Sato and Sathish-Kumar Kamaraj

Progress and challenges in thermochemical technologies for biomass humification: A comprehensive review

Ehsan Sarlaki, Seyyed Alireza Ghafarian Nia, Shixiong Hu, Nader Marzban, Giulia Ischia, Mengya Jia, Meisam Rezaei, Maryam Ahmadi, Pouria Mohammad Javaheri, Atefe Malekian, Meisam Tabatabaei and Mortaza Aghbashlo

Review of sizing methodologies for hydropower-based hybrid energy systems: a techno-economic perspective

Yuting Cui, Jakub Jurasz, Bo Ming, Chengguo Su and Fausto A. Canales

A review on energy harvesting for sustainable IoT monitoring systems

Ying Zhang, Lu Wang, Yaguo Lei, Wei Wang, Chris Bowen, Ye Xu, Sebastian Bader, Mustafa Arafa, Junyi Cao and Wei-Hsin Liao

Opportunities in thermal energy storage: Where phase change materials meet aerogels

Li Zhang, Xiaomei Liu, Yanjie Yuan, Behzad Heidarshenas and Masoud Afrand

Structural design and optimization techniques for the rotational triboelectric nanogenerators – An overview

Jun Cai, Haozhe Wang, Zeyuan Liu and Xin Zhang

Single-phase immersion cooling for data centers and HPC: Recent advances and system-level challenges

Kim Boon Lua and Chi-Chuan Wang

A benchmark model for power system restoration studies: Review and application

T. Skrjanc, L. Herman, D. Virginillo, A. Derviškadić, G. Torresan, R. Mihalic and U. Rudez

Smart power distribution systems: A holistic review of core pillars

Ehab El-Saadany, Moataz Mohamed, Hany Farag, Abdullah Al-Obaidi and Hatem Zeineldin

A coordinated framework for integrating technologies, challenges, and management strategies of distributed energy resources in microgrids

Seyed Peiman Mirhoseini, Mohammad Hassan Nazari and Farhad Fallahi

Modeling and simulation analysis of capacity optimization configuration for low-carbon energy systems in oxygen-enriched coal-fired power plants using wind power for oxygen production

Xiaochao Fan, Jianqiao Sun, Wenwei Zhang, Jianglei Wang and Ruijing Shi

A systems engineering review on the integration of solar concentrators with photoelectrochemical processes

Arend Wessels Moelich and Craig McGregor

Seasonal borehole thermal energy storage for zero-carbon city heating: Mechanisms, optimization, and application challenges

Mengying Cui, Yonggao Yin, Donglin Zhao, Bowen Cao, Xin Chen and Gen Bu

Comparative techno-economic analysis of liquid-hydrogen refueling stations: Process designs, pump technologies, and cold energy utilization

Zhen Shi and Wei Wang

Microbial fuel cells as a sustainable nexus of wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation: Advances, challenges, and future directions in a circular bioeconomy

Yakubu Musa, Boon Siong Wee, Hung Hui Chung, Suk Fun Chin and Sai Hin Lai

Review of transformers applied to wind turbine data: Exploring the potential of transformers in revolutionizing wind turbine data analysis

Djayr Alves Bispo Junior, Gustavo de Novaes Pires Leite, Alvaro Antonio Ochoa Villa, Alexandre Carlos Araújo da Costa, Olga de Castro Vilela, George Darmiton da Cunha Cavalcanti, Paula Suemy Arruda Michima, Enrique López Droguett, Fábio Henrique de Andrade Lima, Leonardo José de Petribú Brennand, Jefferson Silva Barbosa, Fabrício Cristófani and Tsang Ing Ren

From copper-chromite to MXenes: A century of furfural hydrogenation – Experiments, DFT, machine learning, and path forward

Ayyaz Mahmood, Sijie Li, Jin Liu, Venkata Rao Madduluri and Xi Gao

Yarrowia lipolytica for microbial oil production: Lipid extraction technologies, quality assessment, and potential industrial applications

Zihui Hu, Ken Fong Chen, Charanjit Kaur Surjit Singh, Cher Pin Song, Wail Gourich and Eng-Seng Chan

Hydrogen from wastewater through photosynthetic bacteria-based electrolysis

Dario Lacalamita, Alessandra Tacca, Gianluca Maria Farinola and Matteo Grattieri

Research progress on electrocatalytic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural: Reaction pathways, typical catalysts and related coupling reactions

Qibing Yang, Shuhan Liu, Yifei Ye, Zhuoshen Huang, Meiwen Tie, Yanyan Zhang, Ge Wang and Xiubing Huang

Not all CO2 is equal: Source-specific constraints and viability trade-offs in methanol synthesis from industrial emissions

Lebohang Macheli, Bahizire M. Mukeru, Zama Duma, Bilal Patel and Linda L. Jewell

Coupled heat transfer mechanisms and performance optimisation between fluids with dissimilar thermophysical properties in CO2 heat exchangers: A review

Ping Yuan, Chenxi Jia, Xuanang Zhang, Jingyu Wang, Lingfeng Shi, Hua Tian and Gequn Shu

A critical review of technological advancements and challenges in geothermal power generation

Xiting Long, Qiye Wang, Biao Li, Tianyi Gao, Entong Xia, Licheng Sun, Jun Wang and Heping Xie

A review of floating breakwater-wave energy converter integrated systems

Haijun Wang, Zhenxing Sun, Jijian Lian and Jiale Li

Opportunities and new trends in the valorization of steel manufacturing off-gas for carbon-neutral steelmaking

Po-Chih Kuo and Muhammad Aziz

Efficient two-stage encapsulation of metallic phase change materials achieving excellent thermal storage performance

Mingjian Xu, Runda Qian, Peihang Li, Yuanqiang Zhang, Li Huang and Deqiu Zou

Thermal management of electric vehicles batteries under drive cycles: A review

Abdelrahman Gasmelseed, Maryam Nooman AlMallahi and Mahmoud Elgendi

Wildfire-power grid interactions: Feedback, impacts, monitoring, modeling, and mitigation strategies

Jiafu Mao, Yuefeng Hao, Grant Buster, Xiaoying Shi, Mingzhou Jin, Fangxing Li and Peter E. Thornton

Current status of fermentation and electroactive fermentation technologies for biofuel production: A systematic review

C. de la Puente, R. Mateos, A. Morán and A. Escapa

Leveraging machine learning for sustainable biochar and hydrochar production: Advances, challenges, and perspectives in thermochemical processes

Alireza Shafizadeh, Zahra Khounani, Hossein Shahbeik, Pouria Mohammad Javaheri, Setayesh Sajadi, Milad Golvirdizadeh, Sheikh Ahmad Faiz Sheikh Ahmad Tajuddin, Nader Marzban, Normy Norfiza Abdul Razak, Meisam Tabatabaei and Mortaza Aghbashlo

Cell adhesion in microalgae biofilms for wastewater treatment

Jiahua Liu, Maria J. Barbosa, Yuang Cao, Xiaoyu Xu, Han Wang, Khinkhin Phyu, Suli Zhi and Keqiang Zhang

Hybrid solar technologies: A critical review of PV/T systems, cooling methods, and performance trends

Al Baraa Tarnini, Serter Atabay and Mehmet Fatih Orhan

Advanced optimization of distributed generation and network reconfiguration in power distribution networks: Challenges, methodologies, and strategic insights

Priyanka Maurya, Prabhakar Tiwari, Arvind Pratap and Sumit Tiwari

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): Interconnected technological challenges and advances using biomass thermochemical conversion towards negative emissions

Min Jin Karen Wong, Sunlee Han, Sea-Eun Park, Hyeon Yeong Roh, Madhan Kuppusamy, Ju-Won Oh, Hyungseok Nam, Youngsoo Lee and See Hoon Lee

A review of wind power generation steady-state reactive power support requirements and improvement strategies

S. Ncwane and R.C. Bansal

Hydrogen loss pathways in the process of underground hydrogen storage

Chenchen Feng, Zefeng Jing, Ying Li, Yu Zhang and Yifan Liu

Self-adaptive radiative cooling for building envelopes: Principles, materials, applications, and perspectives

Wenyan Qu, Yuxiang Fan, Quan Gong, Xingjiang Liu, Kai Jiao, Wensen Mi, Chao Shen and Lin Lu

Advances in iron-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping hydrogen production: strategies, mechanisms, and emerging technologies

Tingting Xu, Tao Ma, Atif Abdalazeez and Dong Liu

Structural and thermodynamic insights into Mg-based high-entropy alloys for solid-state hydrogen storage: A review

Dawit Andualem Asrate, Song-Jeng Huang and Sathiyalingam Kannaiyan

A review of centralized control technologies and prospects of distributed control technologies for wideband oscillations

Lei Chen, Haozhi Li, Xiaorong Xie, Yulong Liu and Yihao Lin

Metal-organic frameworks and their derivatives for green energy fuel: Hydrogen production

Dhruvi S. Kher, Raeesh Muhammad, Sandeep Kumar, Vijay Gupta, Swapnil Varhade, Brahim Aissa, Manas Pal, Krunal M. Modi, Hyunchul Oh and Abdulkarem Amhamed

Anode materials challenging selections for microbial fuel cell applications

Ineesha Piumali Madhushika, Dayani Pavalakumar, Chami Nilasha Kahakachchi Patabendige, Lanka Jeewanie Samarakoon Undugoda, Jianjun Ma, Cairong Jiang, Abul Kalam Azad, Jung Hyun Kim, Abdalla Mohamed Abdalla and Mostafa Ghasemi

Tailoring hexagonal boron nitride nanomaterials for reversible hydrogen storage

Weixin Zhang, Chengguang Lang, Jieduo Guan, Jielin Luo and Xiangdong Yao

Chemical recycling wind turbine blades for green future

Tassew Belete Bahru, Tekeste Dankala Kule, Netsanet Ayele Getachew, Habte Dulla Berry, Ce Wang, Ping Hu and Yong Liu

Multidimensional perspectives on anammox sludge granulation: Drivers, mechanisms, and future prospects

Shufei He, Xing Huang, Muzi Li, Zhelu Gao, Likui Feng, Weixin Zhao, Qingliang Zhao, Shijie You and Liangliang Wei