Renewable Energy Systems

Renewable energy systems (RES) have recently been widely used to generate heat or electricity from different renewable energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal, hydro as well as biomass. Such systems are developed in order to reduce our dependence on non-renewable sources as well as to mitigate the negative impact on the environment.

Renewable energy systems have a large number of benefits, including greenhouse gas emissions reductions, water and air pollution reduction, and reduction of fossil fuel dependency. Renewables are increasing in popularity around the world as the cost of renewable energy technologies continues to fall and the environmental and health impacts of fossil fuel use become more apparent. Further developments are required to gain renewable systems performance and security.

In this Topical Collection studies analyzing and clarifying the renewable energy systems/micro-systems including hybrid renewable energy systems, are welcome, to gain knowledge and better understanding of the system’s operation, impact on the environment. Large systems as well as micro-systems can be presented from practical, numerical, experimental, or theoretical points of view. New findings on the system implementation and performance are currently very sought after. The energy system’s control strategies, analysis, system optimization, efficiency, current systems review, and energy forecasting are selected important issues. The case study, optimization studies, research study, and system modeling solutions for a range of energy performance scenarios also including economic aspects can be presented by researchers who are experts in the field.

Keywords:Renewable Energy System; Hybrid Energy System; Hybrid Renewable Energy System; Sustainable Energy; Energy Power Systems; System Optimization; System Development; System Modeling; Hybrid Power System; Distributed Power Generation; Smart Hybrid Grid