About this Research Topic
Socio-economic conditions, such as energy demands, greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel depletion, and global energy supply-demand gap, result from population growth and urbanization. To address these issues, optimizing energy usage, reducing fuel consumption, and mitigating environmental impacts are essential. Governments and stakeholders have initiated large-scale projects utilizing renewable energy resources like solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, tidal, and hydropower to provide clean energy and reduce GHG emissions for sustainable development. However, wind and solar energy's intermittency requires ESS integration to ensure a reliable energy supply, is recognized as a promising solution.
The need for adopting Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is clear, especially in the context of the global shift towards green energy under the Paris Agreement. The deployment of short and
long-term Energy Storage Systems (ESS) have become pivotal to stabilizing RES production and meeting consumer-side demand fluctuations.
The evolving socio-economic landscape emphasizes the imperative of transitioning to RES, driven by increasing energy demands, rising greenhouse gas emissions, depleting fossil fuel resources, and population growth and urbanization.
Addressing these concerns underscores the importance of precise energy management, reduced fuel consumption, and environmental impact mitigation. Worldwide, governments and stakeholders launch ambitious initiatives focusing on the widespread deployment of renewable energy resources reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting sustainable development.
In this context, innovative, efficient, cost-effective, and potentially hybrid Energy Storage System (ESS) technologies are crucial, addressing technical challenges in integrating renewable
energy and achieving cost-reduction objectives. These technologies should meet technical and environmental criteria while remaining cost-competitive with conventional power plants.
In the spirit of advancing your journal's scope and relevance, we propose exploring carefully selected research to address current trends and challenges in the field of energy:
- Resilience of Energy Systems: Investigate strategies to enhance grid robustness and energy security.
- Energy Storage Innovations: Explore cutting-edge developments in energy storage technologies.
- Sustainable Energy Policies: Analyze the effectiveness of policies promoting sustainable energy adoption.
- Hybrid Energy Storage Systems: Explore the potential of combining various renewable and conventional energy sources.
- Hybridization of Renewable Energy Sources: Involves combining different clean energy technologies to enhance energy production, reliability, and efficiency.
- Energy Storage for Electrified Transportation: Study energy storage solutions for electric vehicles.
These topics align with current trends and challenges in the field of energy, offering opportunities for valuable research contributions, and better serving our readers and the scientific community.
Keywords: Renewable energy storage, Energy, energy efficiency, Desalination systems, Energy Storage Systems, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency improvements
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