Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Volume 158, issue C, 2022

On the accuracy of Urban Building Energy Modelling

A. Oraiopoulos and B. Howard

Modeling flexibility in energy systems — comparison of power sector models based on simplified test cases

Hans Christian Gils, Hedda Gardian, Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Zerrahn, Alexander Murmann, Jann Launer, Alexander Fehler, Felix Gaumnitz, Jonas van Ouwerkerk, Christian Bußar, Jennifer Mikurda, Laura Torralba-Díaz, Tomke Janßen and Christine Krüger

Smart contracts in energy systems: A systematic review of fundamental approaches and implementations

Desen Kirli, Benoit Couraud, Valentin Robu, Marcelo Salgado-Bravo, Sonam Norbu, Merlinda Andoni, Ioannis Antonopoulos, Matias Negrete-Pincetic, David Flynn and Aristides Kiprakis

Techno-economic analysis of PV-battery systems in Switzerland

Xuejiao Han, Jared Garrison and Gabriela Hug

Development of a stochastic multistage lifecycle programming model for electric power system planning – A case study for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada

Xiaoyue Zhang, Guohe Huang, Lirong Liu and Kailong Li

Solid–gas reactors driven by concentrated solar energy with potential application to calcium looping: A comparative review

M. Alvarez Rivero, D. Rodrigues, C.I.C. Pinheiro, J.P. Cardoso and L.F. Mendes

Natural and industrial wastes for sustainable and renewable polymer composites

Oisik Das, Karthik Babu, Vigneshwaran Shanmugam, Kesavarao Sykam, Mike Tebyetekerwa, Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany, Michael Försth, Gabriel Sas, Jaime Gonzalez-Libreros, Antonio J. Capezza, Mikael S. Hedenqvist, Filippo Berto and Seeram Ramakrishna

A critical review on the current knowledge of geothermal energy piles to sustainably climatize buildings

R.P. Cunha and P.J. Bourne-Webb

Critical review of thermochemical energy storage systems based on cobalt, manganese, and copper oxides

Xiangyu Han, Liang Wang, Haoshu Ling, Zhiwei Ge, Xipeng Lin, Xingjian Dai and Haisheng Chen

Decarbonizing power systems: A critical review of the role of energy storage

Mehdi Jafari, Audun Botterud and Apurba Sakti

Potential photo-switching sorbents for CO2 capture – A review

Yuanting Qiao, Josh J. Bailey, Qi Huang, Xuebin Ke and Chunfei Wu

Nanomaterials and films for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and solid oxide cells by flame spray pyrolysis

Suriya Venkatesan, Jens Mitzel, Karsten Wegner, Remi Costa, Pawel Gazdzicki and Kaspar Andreas Friedrich

Extended graphical approach for the implementation of energy-consuming negative emission technologies

Purusothmn Nair S Bhasker Nair, Raymond R. Tan and Dominic C.Y. Foo

Upscaling scenarios for ocean thermal energy conversion with technological learning in Indonesia and their global relevance

Jannis Langer, Jaco Quist and Kornelis Blok

Balancing profitability of energy production, societal impacts and biodiversity in offshore wind farm design

E.A. Virtanen, J. Lappalainen, M. Nurmi, M. Viitasalo, M. Tikanmäki, J. Heinonen, E. Atlaskin, M. Kallasvuo, H. Tikkanen and A. Moilanen

Thermal structure of the African continent based on magnetic data: Future geothermal renewable energy explorations in Africa

Samah Elbarbary, Mohamed Abdel Zaher, Hakim Saibi, Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Dhananjay Ravat and Hossam Marzouk

Business model scaling can be used to activate and grow the biogas-to-grid market in Australia to decarbonise hard-to-abate industries: An application of entrepreneurial management

Turlough F. Guerin

Investigation of the effect of equal and unequal feeding time intervals on process stability and methane yield during anaerobic digestion grass silage

Uchenna Egwu, Kennedy Onyelowe, Shamas Tabraiz, Emmanuel Johnson and Alexander D. Mutshow

Status of and expectations for flexible bioenergy to support resource efficiency and to accelerate the energy transition

F. Schipfer, E. Mäki, U. Schmieder, N. Lange, T. Schildhauer, C. Hennig and D. Thrän

Demand response-integrated investment and operational planning of renewable and sustainable energy systems considering forecast uncertainties: A systematic review

Soheil Mohseni, Alan C. Brent, Scott Kelly and Will N. Browne

How can the cost and effectiveness of renewable portfolio standards be coordinated? Incentive mechanism design from the coevolution perspective

Zhao Xin-gang, Zuo Yi, Wang Hui and Wang Zhen

Towards a climate-neutral energy system in the Netherlands

Martin Scheepers, Silvana Gamboa Palacios, Elodie Jegu, Larissa P. Nogueira, Loes Rutten, Joost van Stralen, Koen Smekens, Kira West and Bob van der Zwaan

Energy use in open-field agriculture in the EU: A critical review recommending energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources adoption

Bas Paris, Foteini Vandorou, Athanasios T. Balafoutis, Konstantinos Vaiopoulos, George Kyriakarakos, Dimitris Manolakos and George Papadakis

The potential of building automation and control systems to lower the energy demand in residential buildings: A review of their performance and influencing parameters

L. Van Thillo, S. Verbeke and A. Audenaert

How to integrate real-world user behavior into models of the market diffusion of alternative fuels in passenger cars - An in-depth comparison of three models for Germany

T. Gnann, D. Speth, K. Seddig, M. Stich, W. Schade and J.J. Gómez Vilchez

Geospatial multi-criteria analysis for identifying optimum wind and solar sites in Africa: Towards effective power sector decarbonization

Jay R.S. Doorga, Jim W. Hall and Nick Eyre

From plate to plug: The impact of offshore renewables on European fisheries and the role of marine spatial planning

V. Stelzenmüller, J. Letschert, A. Gimpel, C. Kraan, W.N. Probst, S. Degraer and R. Döring

Impact of climatic conditions on prospects for integrated photovoltaics in electric vehicles

Christian Thiel, Ana Gracia Amillo, Alessandro Tansini, Anastasios Tsakalidis, Georgios Fontaras, Ewan Dunlop, Nigel Taylor, Arnulf Jäger-Waldau, Kenji Araki, Kensuke Nishioka, Yasuyuki Ota and Masafumi Yamaguchi

A study on renewed perspectives of electrified road for wireless power transfer of electric vehicles

Laura Soares and Hao Wang

Renewable energy and climate change

A.G. Olabi and Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem

China's flexibility challenge in achieving carbon neutrality by 2060

Jianglong Li, Mun Ho, Chunping Xie and Nicholas Stern

Sustainable technology acceptability: Mapping technological, contextual, and social-psychological determinants of EU stakeholders’ biofuel acceptance

F. Dessi, S. Ariccio, T. Albers, S. Alves, N. Ludovico and M. Bonaiuto

Switchgrass as an alternative biomass for ethanol production in a biorefinery: Perspectives on technology, economics and environmental sustainability

Valeria Larnaudie, Mario Daniel Ferrari and Claudia Lareo

Ex-post analysis of energy subsidy removal through integrated energy systems modelling

V. Aryanpur, M. Ghahremani, S. Mamipour, M. Fattahi, B. Ó Gallachóir, M.D. Bazilian and J. Glynn

Something is sustainable in the state of Denmark: A review of the Danish district heating sector

Katinka Johansen and Sven Werner

Low-head pumped hydro storage: A review of applicable technologies for design, grid integration, control and modelling

J.P. Hoffstaedt, D.P.K. Truijen, J. Fahlbeck, L.H.A. Gans, M. Qudaih, A.J. Laguna, J.D.M. De Kooning, K. Stockman, H. Nilsson, P.-T. Storli, B. Engel, M. Marence and J.D. Bricker

Negative CO2 emissions from flexible biofuel synthesis: Concepts, potentials, technologies

Emanuele Moioli and Tilman Schildhauer

A review on carbonized natural green flora for solar desalination

T. Arunkumar, Hyeong Woo Lim, David Denkenberger and Sang Joon Lee

Agricultural waste biorefinery development towards circular bioeconomy

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Raveendran Sindhu, Ranjna Sirohi, Vinod Kumar, Vivek Ahluwalia, Parameswaran Binod, Ankita Juneja, Deepak Kumar, Binghua Yan, Surendra Sarsaiya, Zengqiang Zhang, Ashok Pandey and Mohammad J. Taherzadeh

Faults and Fault Ride Through strategies for grid-connected photovoltaic system: A comprehensive review

Kamran Zeb, Saif Ul Islam, Imran Khan, Waqar Uddin, M. Ishfaq, Tiago Davi Curi Busarello, S.M. Muyeen, Iftikhar Ahmad and H.J. Kim

Progress and challenges of crop production and electricity generation in agrivoltaic systems using semi-transparent photovoltaic technology

Shiva Gorjian, Erion Bousi, Özal Emre Özdemir, Max Trommsdorff, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Abhishek Anand, Karunesh Kant and Shauhrat S. Chopra

Biotechnical applications of phasins: Small proteins with large potential

Brandi Brown, Cheryl Immethun, Mark Wilkins and Rajib Saha

Lignocellulosic biomass as renewable feedstock for biodegradable and recyclable plastics production: A sustainable approach

Tirath Raj, K. Chandrasekhar, A. Naresh Kumar and Sang-Hyoun Kim

Carbon material/MnO2 as conductive skeleton for supercapacitor electrode material: A review

Tian Yue, Boxiong Shen and Pei Gao

Researchers’ perspective within responsible implementation with socio-technical approaches. An example from solar energy research centre in Chile

Ruth Carbajo and Luisa F. Cabeza

An impact study of COVID-19 on the electricity sector: A comprehensive literature review and Ibero-American survey

Joaquín Lazo, Gerson Aguirre and David Watts

Experimental investigation on a novel wind-to-heat system with high efficiency

X.Y. Sun, X.H. Zhong, M.Y. Zhang and T. Zhou

Stranded assets and reduced profits: Analyzing the economic underpinnings of the fossil fuel industry's resistance to climate stabilization

T.A. Hansen

Techno-economic and environmental sustainability of industrial-scale productions of perovskite solar cells

Jingyi Zhang, Nathan Chang, Cara Fagerholm, Ming Qiu, Ling Shuai, Renate Egan and Chris Yuan

Current status and future development of hybrid PV/T system with PCM module: 4E (energy, exergy, economic and environmental) assessments

Yuanlong Cui, Jie Zhu, Fan Zhang, Yiming Shao and Yibing Xue

Rare earth element resource evaluation of coal byproducts: A case study from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

D.A. Bagdonas, A.J. Enriquez, K.A. Coddington, David Finnoff, J.F. McLaughlin, M.D. Bazilian, E.H. Phillips and T.L. McLing

Innovation in intermittent electricity and stationary energy storage in the United States and Canada: A review

Sarah M. Jordaan, Jiyun Park and Shreya Rangarajan

The hydropower sector in Poland: Historical development and current status

Tomasz Kałuża, Mateusz Hämmerling, Paweł Zawadzki, Wojciech Czekała, Robert Kasperek, Mariusz Sojka, Marian Mokwa, Mariusz Ptak, Arkadiusz Szkudlarek, Mirosław Czechlowski and Jacek Dach

A review of commercial numerical modelling approaches for axial hydrokinetic turbine wake analysis in channel flow

C.M. Niebuhr, S. Schmidt, M. van Dijk, Lones Smith and V.S. Neary

Life cycle assessment of a short-rotation coppice willow riparian buffer strip for farm nutrient mitigation and renewable energy production

David Livingstone, Beatrice M. Smyth, Gary Lyons, Aoife M. Foley, Simon T. Murray and Chris Johnston

The role of residential tree arrangement: A scoping review of energy efficiency in temperate to subtropical climate zones

Mina Rouhollahi, David Whaley, Monica Behrend, Josh Byrne and John Boland

Role of sustainable heat sources in transition towards fourth generation district heating – A review

A.M. Jodeiri, M.J. Goldsworthy, S. Buffa and M. Cozzini

Energy poverty trends and determinants in Pakistan: Empirical evidence from eight waves of HIES 1998–2019

Ashar Awan, Faik Bilgili and Dil Rahut

Online reliability assessment of energy systems based on a high-order extended-state-observer with application to nuclear reactors

Zhe Dong, Bowen Li, Junyi Li, Xiaojin Huang and Zuoyi Zhang

Pioneering a performance-based future for energy efficiency: Lessons learnt from a comparative review analysis of pay-for-performance programmes

Dimitra Tzani, Vassilis Stavrakas, Marion Santini, Samuel Thomas, Jan Rosenow and Alexandros Flamos

Effects of country risks and government subsidies on renewable energy firms’ performance: Evidence from China

Wenwen Zhang, Yi-Bin Chiu and Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao

Recent advances in the modeling of fundamental processes in liquid metal batteries

Daksh Agarwal, Rakesh Potnuru, Chiranjeev Kaushik, Vinay Rajesh Darla, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Ashish Garg, Raju Kumar Gupta, Naveen Tiwari and Kanwar Singh Nalwa

Delivering negative emissions innovation on the right track: A patent analysis

Jia-Ning Kang, Yun-Long Zhang and Weiming Chen

Towards worldwide application of neighborhood sustainability assessments: A systematic review on realized case studies

S. Ferrari, M. Zoghi, T. Blázquez and Dall’O’, G.

Supercooling of phase change materials: A review

I. Shamseddine, F. Pennec, P. Biwole and F. Fardoun

Advances in catalytic decarboxylation of bioderived fatty acids to diesel-range alkanes

Bi-Shuang Chen, Yong-Yi Zeng, Lan Liu, Lei Chen, Peigao Duan, Rafael Luque, Ran Ge and Wuyuan Zhang

Between the sun and us: Expert perceptions on the innovation, policy, and deep uncertainties of space-based solar geoengineering

Chad Baum, Sean Low and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Review of robot-based damage assessment for offshore wind turbines

Y. Liu, M. Hajj and Y. Bao

The impact of COVID -19 on offshore wind project productivity – A case study

J. Lerche, S. Lorentzen, P. Enevoldsen and H.H. Neve

Biomethane production potential in Southern Italy: An empirical approach

G. Pappalardo, R. Selvaggi and B. Pecorino

A novel method to improve methane generation from waste sludge using iron nanoparticles coated with magnesium hydroxide

Ramadan Eljamal, Ibrahim Maamoun, Khaoula Bensaida, Gulsum Yilmaz, Yuij Sugihara and Osama Eljamal

Heat storage: Hydration investigation of MgSO4/active carbon composites, from material development to domestic applications scenarios

Simona Bennici, Patrick Dutournié, Jérémy Cathalan, Mohamed Zbair, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Elliot Scuiller and Cyril Vaulot