Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

The mission of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is to communicate the most interesting and relevant critical thinking in renewable and sustainable energy in order to bring together the research community, the private sector and policy and decision makers. The aim of the journal is to share problems, solutions, novel ideas and technologies to support the transition to a low carbon future and achieve our global emissions targets as established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews publishes review papers, original research, case studies and new technology analyses that have a significant review element, which may take the form of a critique, comparison, or analysis. The journal also publishes a new paper type, Expert Insights, which are commissioned mini-reviews from field leaders on topics of significant interest. Case studies will only be considered if they also demonstrate the applicability of the work to other regions and/or inform the broader field of renewable and sustainable energy. A bibliographic or literature review, without critical thinking is not considered suitable.

The journal considers articles on the following themes, provided the link to renewable and sustainable energy is clear and thoroughly examined:

Energy resources - bioresources (e.g. biomass, waste), fossil fuels (including natural gas), geothermal, hydrogen, hydropower, nuclear, marine and ocean energy, solar and wind

Applications - buildings, industry and transport

Utilization - batteries, conversion technologies, fuel cells, storage technologies, technical developments and technology scaling

Environment - atmosphere, climate issues, meteorology, mitigation technologies (e.g. carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture and utilization (CCU), solar radiation management)

Techno-socio-economic aspects - health, industry, policy, political, regulatory, social (e.g. access, education, equality, equity)

Systems - carbon accounting, energy-food-water nexus, energy modelling, life cycle assessment (LCA), nutrient-energy-water (NEW) nexus, smart infrastructure

Sustainability - the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

• Aoife M. Foley
  Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Associate Editors

Automotive Engineering Systems

• Xiaosong Hu
  Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Bioenergy, Waste to Energy, Biomass

• Abdul-Sattar Nizami
  King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Buildings and Built Environment

• Taehoon Hong
  Yonsei University Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Materials

• Martin Schiemann
  Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Policy, Economics, Biomass, Solar Thermal

• Sotirios Karellas
  National Technical University Of Athens Laboratory of Steam Boilers and Thermal Plants, Zografou, Greece

Power Systems

• S. Wang
  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Solar Integration, Solar Materials, Solar Heating and Cooling

• Yanjun Dai
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Transport

• Brian Caulfield Ph.D.
  University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Wind Energy

• Paul Leahy
  University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Editorial Board Members

Air pollution, Greenhouse Gas & Climate Policy

• Xi Lu
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Bioenergy

• Lise Appels
  KU Leuven Science and Technology Group Department of Chemical Engineering, Heverlee, Belgium
• Suani Teixeira Coelho
  University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Biomass

• Purushothaman Abhilash PhD
  Banaras Hindu University Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Varanasi, India
• Shurong Wang
  Zhejiang University State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Hangzhou, China

Biomass and Solar

• Abdul Ghani Olabi
  University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Buildings, Construction and Architecture

• Jian Zuo
  The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Carbon Fluxes

• John D Albertson
  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

Energy Economics and Financing

• Ilhan Ozturk
  Cag University, Fac. of Business and Economics, Mersin, Turkey

Energy Modelling, Optimisation, Policy and Markets

• Reinhard Haas
  TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
• Denis Sidorov
  Hunan University, Changsha, China, and ESI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Heat Transfer

• Qiuwang Wang
  Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xian, China

Hydrogen Energy

• Faik Bilgili PhD
  Erciyes University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Kayseri, Turkey
• Andreas W. Schäfer
  University College London, London, United Kingdom

Hydrogen, Waste to Energy and Sustainable Energy

• Yong Sik Ok
  Korea University Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Infrastructure and Society

• Lindsay C. Beevers
  Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Marine Energy

• AbuBakr S. Bahaj
  University of Southampton, Southampton City, United Kingdom
• Barbara Zanuttigh
  University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Materials

• Chaoying Wan
  University of Warwick International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing, Warwick, United Kingdom

Ocean Atmosphere Interactions and Ocean Energy

• António Franco de Oliveira Falcão
  University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• Kieran O'Driscoll
  Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
• Wanan Sheng PhD, MSc, BE(Hons)
  

Policy and Assessment

• Douglas J. Arent
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis, Golden, Colorado, United States
• Mark F. Jentsch
  Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany
• Noam Lior
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Renewable Energy Infrastructure

• Leyla Ozgener
  Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

Renewable Energy Integration

• Gareth Harrison
  Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Renewable energy and power systems

• Xiangjun Li
  China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China
• Ju Ping
  Hohai University College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing, China

Resource Assessment and Solar

• David Renne
  Dave Renne Renewables, Boulder, Colorado, United States

Smart Cities

• Diana Reckien
  University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

Smart Grids and Power Systems

• Liana Cipcigan
  Cardiff University Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff, United Kingdom
• Qinglai Guo
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• George Kariniotakis
  MINES ParisTech - Sophia Antipolis Campus, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Solar Thermal

• Brian Norton
  Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Solar photovoltaics and solar energy

• Joshua Pearce
  Michigan Technological University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Houghton, Michigan, United States
• Simon Philipps
  Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany

Stochastic Optimisation in Energy Systems

• Antonino Marvuglia
  Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Environmental Research and Innovation Research Department, Belvaux, Luxembourg

Subsurface Resource, Sustainability, Techno-Socio-Economic Assessment

• Ray (Zhenhua) Rui
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Transport Electrification

• Xiaosong Hu
  Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Turbomachinery, combustion and renewable energy

• Patrick Hendrick
  ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium

Water, Hydraulics and Hydropower

• Li He
  Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Wind

• Robert W. Thresher
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States

Wind Energy and Energy Forecasting

• Jethro Browell
  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

"Carbon materials, and catalysts

• Michela Alfe
  Institute for Research on Combustion (IRC), Napoli, Italy