Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

1997 - 2025

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Volume 170, issue C, 2022

A systematic review of machine learning techniques related to local energy communities

Alejandro Hernandez-Matheus, Markus Löschenbrand, Kjersti Berg, Ida Fuchs, Mònica Aragüés-Peñalba, Eduard Bullich-Massagué and Andreas Sumper

Rational design of boron nitride with different dimensionalities for sustainable applications

Ning Han, Shuo Wang, Ashvinder K. Rana, Saira Asif, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Awais Bokhari, Jinlin Long, Vijay Kumar Thakur and Xiaolin Zhao

Optimal portfolio of a 100% renewable energy generation base supported by concentrating solar power

Yanghao Yu, Ershun Du, Zhichao Chen, Yibo Su, Xianfeng Zhang, Hongbin Yang, Peng Wang and Ning Zhang

Uncertainty in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of sustainable aviation fuels from vegetable oils

Gonca Seber, Neus Escobar, Hugo Valin and Robert Malina

Practical application of energy management strategy for hybrid electric vehicles based on intelligent and connected technologies: Development stages, challenges, and future trends

Peng Dong, Junwei Zhao, Xuewu Liu, Jian Wu, Xiangyang Xu, Yanfang Liu, Shuhan Wang and Wei Guo

Evaluating operational strategies for the installation of offshore wind turbine substructures

Jorick Tjaberings, Stefano Fazi and Evrim Ursavas

Cooling of high heat flux miniaturized electronic devices using thermal ground plane: An overview

Bairi Levi Rakshith, Lazarus Godson Asirvatham, Appadurai Anitha Angeline, Stephen Manova, Jefferson Raja Bose, J Perinba Selvin Raj, Omid Mahian and Somchai Wongwises

A comprehensive review of standards for distributed energy resource grid-integration and microgrid

Jiaqi Shi, Liya Ma, Chenchen Li, Nian Liu and Jianhua Zhang

Active control strategies for system enhancement and load mitigation of floating offshore wind turbines: A review

Hoai Vu Anh Truong, Tri Dung Dang, Cong Phat Vo and Kyoung Kwan Ahn

Evaluation of a biomethane, food and biofertiliser polygeneration system in a circular economy system

A. Bose, R. O'Shea, R. Lin, A. Long, K. Rajendran, D. Wall, S. De and J.D. Murphy

Novel textured surfaces for superior corrosion mitigation in molten carbonate salts for concentrating solar power

P. Kondaiah and R. Pitchumani

The preferential preservation of both different minerals and polyethylene microplastics on aromatic or aliphatic carbon fractions within low or high pyrolysis temperature biochar under mineralization

Jie Liu, Zezhen Pan, Ke Sun, Yalan Chen, Yan Yang, Bo Gao and Baoshan Xing

A novel Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for power maximisation on wind turbines

L. Pustina, F. Biral and J. Serafini

Agricultural waste-derived biochar in microbial fuel cells towards a carbon-negative circular economy

Thanh Ngoc-Dan Cao, Hussnain Mukhtar, Chang-Ping Yu, Xuan-Thanh Bui and Shu-Yuan Pan

Advancing biological processing for valorization of plastic wastes

A. Gluth, Z. Xu, L.S. Fifield and B. Yang

The use of bismuth-based photocatalysts for the production of ammonia through photocatalytic nitrogen fixation

Yang Sun, Younes Ahmadi, Ki-Hyun Kim and Jechan Lee

Performance analysis and modelling of a 50 MW grid-connected photovoltaic plant in Spain after 12 years of operation

Enrique Fuster-Palop, Carlos Vargas-Salgado, Juan Carlos Ferri-Revert and Jorge Payá

Spatio-temporal distribution of Chinese cities’ air quality and the impact of high-speed rail

Qingchen Liu, Hongchang Li, Wen-long Shang and Kun Wang

Chemical processes for the recovery of valuable metals from spent nickel metal hydride batteries: A review

L. Cassayre, B. Guzhov, M. Zielinski and B. Biscans

A comprehensive review on biomass humification: Recent advances in pathways, challenges, new applications, and perspectives

Shuxia Wei, Zichen Li, Yong Sun, Jiemei Zhang, Yuanyuan Ge and Zhili Li

Extreme events in the European renewable power system: Validation of a modeling framework to estimate renewable electricity production and demand from meteorological data

L. van der Most, K. van der Wiel, R.M.J. Benders, P.W. Gerbens-Leenes, P. Kerkmans and R. Bintanja

The recent advancements in the building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPV/T) systems: An updated review

A.S. Abdelrazik, Bashar Shboul, Mohamed Elwardany, R.N. Zohny and Ahmed Osama

China's industrial decarbonization in the context of carbon neutrality: A sub-sectoral analysis based on integrated modelling

Tianming Shao, Xunzhang Pan, Xiang Li, Sheng Zhou, Shu Zhang and Wenying Chen

Energy equity as a major driver of energy intensity in South Asia

S.R. Shakya, R. Adhikari, S. Poudel and M. Rupakheti

Advances in biological techniques for sustainable lignocellulosic waste utilization in biogas production

Zhenghui Gao, Khaled Alshehri, Yuan Li, Hang Qian, Devin Sapsford, Peter Cleall and Michael Harbottle

Volume 169, issue C, 2022

Biowaste to bioenergy options for sustainable economic growth opportunities in developing countries: Product space model analysis and policy map development

Muhammad Abdul Qyyum, Syed Fahad Ali Shah, Kinza Qadeer, Ahmad Naquash, Muhammad Yasin, Mohammad Rehan, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Moonyong Lee and Abdul-Sattar Nizami

Nuclear power and climate policy integration in developed and developing countries

Gorkem Gungor and Ramazan Sarı

Environmental mobile monitoring of urban microclimates: A review

I. Kousis, M. Manni and A.L. Pisello

A critical review of biomimetic building envelopes: towards a bio-adaptive model from nature to architecture

Francesco Sommese, Lidia Badarnah and Gigliola Ausiello

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) developed by coupling a Pressurised Chemical Looping combustor with a turbo expander: How to optimize plant efficiency

Pietro Bartocci, Alberto Abad, Tobias Mattisson, Arturo Cabello, Margarita de las Obras Loscertales, Teresa Mendiara Negredo, Mauro Zampilli, Andrea Taiana, Angela Serra, Inmaculada Arauzo, Cristobal Cortes, Liang Wang, Øyvind Skreiberg, Haiping Yang, Qing Yang, Wang Lu, Yingquan Chen and Francesco Fantozzi

Adoption of renewable home heating systems: An agent-based model of heat pumps in Ireland

Tensay Hadush Meles and Lisa Ryan

Multifunctional landscapes for dedicated bioenergy crops lead to low-carbon market-competitive biofuels

Nawa Raj Baral, Shruti K. Mishra, Anthe George, Sagar Gautam, Umakant Mishra and Corinne D. Scown

Impact of COVID-19 on returns-volatility spillovers in national and regional carbon markets in China

Te-Ke Mai, Aoife M. Foley, Michael McAleer and Chia-Lin Chang

Solar Energy-Powered Battery Electric Vehicle charging stations: Current development and future prospect review

Kah Yung Yap, Hon Huin Chin and Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

A review of micro hydro systems in urban areas: Opportunities and challenges

Arezoo Boroomandnia, Behzad Rismanchi and Wenyan Wu

The impact of lower quality water on soiling removal from photovoltaic panels

A. Boeing, M. Neda, S. Steinberg and J. Batista

District heating system as the infrastructure for competition among producers in the heat market

Aušra Pažėraitė, Vidas Lekavičius and Ramūnas Gatautis

Sustainable biofuel production approach: Critical methanol green transesterification by efficient and stable heterogeneous catalyst

Siow Hwa Teo, Aminul Islam, Nasar Mansir, Mohd Razali Shamsuddin, Collin G. Joseph, Motonobu Goto and Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap

Design and experimental study on a hybrid adsorption refrigeration system using desiccant coated heat exchangers for efficient energy utilization

Jing Xu, Qaunwen Pan, Wei Zhang, Zhiliang Liu, Ruzhu Wang and Tianshu Ge

A transfer method to estimate hub-height wind speed from 10 meters wind speed based on machine learning

Shuang Yu and Robert Vautard

A review of small hydropower performance and cost

S.J.W. Klein and E.L.B. Fox

High yield, low cost, environmentally friendly process to recycle silicon solar panels: Technical, economic and environmental feasibility assessment

Pablo R. Dias, Lucas Schmidt, Nathan L. Chang, Marina Monteiro Lunardi, Rong Deng, Blair Trigger, Lucas Bonan Gomes, Renate Egan and Hugo Veit

Low carbon transition of China's electric and heating sector considering reliability: A modelling and optimization approach

Siming Song, Pei Liu and Zheng Li

Small modular reactors enable the transition to a low-carbon power system across Canada

Sichen Gao, Guohe Huang, Xiaoyue Zhang and Dengcheng Han

Profitability analysis on demand-side flexibility: A review

Jose-Fernando Forero-Quintero, Roberto Villafáfila-Robles, Sara Barja-Martinez, Ingrid Munné-Collado, Pol Olivella-Rosell and Daniel Montesinos-Miracle

Peer-to-peer kilowatt and negawatt trading: A review of challenges and recent advances in distribution networks

M. Imran Azim, Wayes Tushar, Tapan K. Saha, Chau Yuen and David Smith

Experimental and numerical analysis of a hybrid WEC-breakwater system combining an oscillating water column and an oscillating buoy

Yong Cheng, Lei Fu, Saishuai Dai, Maurizio Collu, Lin Cui, Zhiming Yuan and Atilla Incecik

Multi-timescale hierarchical scheduling of an integrated energy system considering system inertia

Yuxiao Qin, Pei Liu and Zheng Li

Heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials embedded with metal foam for thermal energy storage: A review

Wei Cui, Tianyu Si, Xiangxuan Li, Xinyi Li, Lin Lu, Ting Ma and Qiuwang Wang

Second-life EV batteries for stationary storage applications in Local Energy Communities

Linda Colarullo and Jagruti Thakur

Pyrolysis of lignocellulosic, algal, plastic, and other biomass wastes for biofuel production and circular bioeconomy: A review of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) approach

Jamin Escalante, Wei-Hsin Chen, Meisam Tabatabaei, Anh Tuan Hoang, Eilhann E. Kwon, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin and Ayyadurai Saravanakumar

A review of sensor applications towards precise control of pyrolysis of solid waste and biomasses

Haifeng Zhang, Shuai Ju, Xin Jin, Yan Yuan, Yingji Wu, Ashok Kumar Nadda, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Liping Cai and Changlei Xia

A comprehensive review of thermoelectric generation optimization by statistical approach: Taguchi method, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and response surface methodology (RSM)

Wei-Hsin Chen, Manuel Carrera Uribe, Eilhann E. Kwon, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Young-Kwon Park, Lu Ding and Lip Huat Saw

Ammonia as hydrogen carrier: Advances in ammonia decomposition catalysts for promising hydrogen production

Shangcong Sun, Qiuqiao Jiang, Dongyue Zhao, Tiantian Cao, Hao Sha, Chuankun Zhang, Haitao Song and Zhijian Da

Realistic representation of city street-level human thermal stress via a new urban climate-human coupling system

Xinjie Huang, Jiyun Song, Chenghao Wang and Pak Wai Chan

Potential for CO2 mitigation and economic benefits from accelerated carbonation of construction and demolition waste

Ning Zhang, Duo Zhang, Jian Zuo, Travis R. Miller, Huabo Duan and Georg Schiller

Conceptual design of energy market topologies for communities and their practical applications in EU: A comparison of three case studies

Ewa Neska and Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska

Levelised cost of PV integration for distribution networks

Oktoviano Gandhi, Carlos D. Rodríguez-Gallegos, Wenjie Zhang, Thomas Reindl and Dipti Srinivasan

Ground-mounted photovoltaic power station site selection and economic analysis based on a hybrid fuzzy best-worst method and geographic information system: A case study Guilan province

Moein Besharati Fard, Parisa Moradian, Mohammadreza Emarati, Mehdi Ebadi, Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh and Jiří Jaromír Klemeŝ

Synthesis of a regenerative energy system – beyond carbon emissions neutrality

Sanja Potrč, Andreja Nemet, Lidija Čuček, Petar Sabev Varbanov and Zdravko Kravanja

Evaluating floating photovoltaics (FPVs) potential in providing clean energy and supporting agricultural growth in Vietnam

Hamid Pouran, Mariana Padilha Campos Lopes, Hesan Ziar, David Alves Castelo Branco and Yong Sheng

Comparative well-to-pump assessment of fueling pathways for zero-carbon transportation in China: Hydrogen economy or methanol economy?

Jiaxuan Li, Xun Zhu, Ned Djilali, Yang Yang, Dingding Ye, Rong Chen and Qiang Liao

Co-benefits between energy efficiency and demand-response on renewable-based energy systems

Géremi Gilson Dranka, Paula Ferreira and A. Ismael F. Vaz

Techno-economic assessment of CO2 capture possibilities for oil shale power plants

Artjom Saia, Dmitri Neshumayev, Aaro Hazak, Priit Sander, Oliver Järvik and Alar Konist

Challenges and opportunities in decarbonizing the U.S. energy system

Douglas J. Arent, Peter Green, Zia Abdullah, Teresa Barnes, Sage Bauer, Andrey Bernstein, Derek Berry, Joe Berry, Tony Burrell, Birdie Carpenter, Jaquelin Cochran, Randy Cortright, Maria Curry-Nkansah, Paul Denholm, Vahan Gevorian, Michael Himmel, Bill Livingood, Matt Keyser, Jennifer King, Ben Kroposki, Trieu Mai, Mark Mehos, Matteo Muratori, Sreekant Narumanchi, Bryan Pivovar, Patty Romero-Lankao, Mark Ruth, Greg Stark and Craig Turchi

Enhancing growth environment for attached microalgae to populate onto spent coffee grounds in producing biodiesel

Nurulfarah Adilah Rosmahadi, Hemamalini Rawindran, Jun Wei Lim, Worapon Kiatkittipong, Suttichai Assabumrungrat, Vesna Najdanovic-Visak, Jiawei Wang, Boredi Silas Chidi, Chii-Dong Ho, Eman Alaaeldin Abdelfattah, Sze Mun Lam and Jin Chung Sin

Circularity and life cycle environmental impact assessment of batteries for electric vehicles: Industrial challenges, best practices and research guidelines

Aitor Picatoste, Daniel Justel and Joan Manuel F. Mendoza

Will the public in emerging economies support renewable energy? Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ying Yu, Kensuke Yamaguchi, Truong Dang Thuy and Noah Kittner

Japan's pathways to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – Scenario analysis using an energy modeling methodology

A. Ozawa, T. Tsani and Y. Kudoh

A novel process model for developing a scalable room-level energy benchmark using real-time bigdata: Focused on identifying representative energy usage patterns

Junsoo Lee, Tae Wan Kim and Choongwan Koo

The marginal abatement cost of co-producing biomethane, food and biofertiliser in a circular economy system

Archishman Bose, Richard O'Shea, Richen Lin, Aoife Long, Karthik Rajendran, David Wall, Sudipta De and Jerry D. Murphy

Multifunctional behaviour of graphite in lithium–sulfur batteries

M. Abdollahifar, P. Molaiyan, U. Lassi, N.L. Wu and A. Kwade

Public dialogue as a collaborative planning process for offshore wind energy projects: Implications from a text analysis of a South Korean case

Seona Park, Sun-Jin Yun and Kongjang Cho

Building PV integration according to regional climate conditions: BIPV regional adaptability extending Köppen-Geiger climate classification against urban and climate-related temperature increases

Nikolaos Skandalos, Meng Wang, Vasileios Kapsalis, Delia D'Agostino, Danny Parker, Sushant Suresh Bhuvad, Udayraj,, Jinqing Peng and Dimitris Karamanis

Convolutional neural network-based homogenization for constructing a long-term global surface solar radiation dataset

Changkun Shao, Kun Yang, Wenjun Tang, Yanyi He, Yaozhi Jiang, Hui Lu, Haohuan Fu and Juepeng Zheng

Plant microbial fuel cells from the perspective of photovoltaics: Efficiency, power, and applications

T. Van Limbergen, R. Bonné, J. Hustings, R. Valcke, S. Thijs, J. Vangronsveld and J.V. Manca

Production of fuels and chemicals from macroalgal biomass: Current status, potentials, challenges, and prospects

J. Jay Liu, Rofice Dickson, Haider Niaz, Jaap W. Van Hal, J.W. Dijkstra and Peyman Fasahati

Quality of gaseous biofuels: Statistical assessment and guidance on production technologies

Guohui Song, Jun Xiao, Chao Yan, Haiming Gu and Hao Zhao