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
Agriculture, Biofuels, and LCA
- Catherine Brewer
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Automotive Engineering Systems
- Xiaosong Hu
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Bioenergy, Waste to Energy, Biomass
- Abdul-Sattar Nizami
Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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
- Songyan 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
Solar Photovoltaics and Solar Energy
- Simon Philipps
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany
Transport
- Brian Caulfield
The University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Wind Energy
- Paul Leahy
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
Assistant Editor
- Dlzar Al Kez
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Editorial Board Members
Air pollution, Greenhouse Gas & Climate Policy
- Xi Lu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Bioenergy
- Lise Appels
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium - Suani Teixeira Coelho
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biomass
- Purushothaman Abhilash
Banaras Hindu University Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Varanasi, India - Shurong Wang
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Carbon Fluxes
- John D Albertson
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Biomass and Solar
- Abdul Ghani Olabi
University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Carbon Materials, and Catalysts
- Michela Alfe
Institute for Research on Combustion (IRC), Napoli, Italy
Buildings, Construction and Architecture
- Jian Zuo
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Buildings and Energy Efficiency
- Lola Ben-Alon
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, New York, New York, United States
Energy Consumer Behaviour
- Yael Parag
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel
Energy Economics and Financing
- Ilhan Ozturk
Cag University, Tarsus, Turkey
Energy Modelling, Optimisation, Policy and Markets
- Reinhard Haas
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria - Denis Sidorov DSc habil.
L A Melentiev Institute of Power Engineering Systems Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 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
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, Korea Biochar Research Center, Chuncheon, 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
Policy and Assessment
- Douglas J. Arent
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, United States
Ocean Atmosphere Interactions and Ocean Energy
- António Franco de Oliveira Falcão
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal - Mark Jentsch
Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany - Kieran O'Driscoll
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom - Noam Lior
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Wanan Sheng
SW MARE Marine Technology, Cork, Ireland
Renewable Energy Infrastructure
- Leyla Ozgener
Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
Renewable Energy Integration
- Gareth Harrison
The University of Edinburgh School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Renewable Energy and Power Systems
- Xiangjun Li
China Electric Power Research Institute, Energy Storage and Electro-technics Department, 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
Stochastic Optimisation in Energy Systems
- Antonino Marvuglia
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Subsurface Resource, Sustainability, Techno-Socio-Economic Assessment
- Ray (Zhenhua) Rui
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Transport
- Haifeng Dai
Tongji University, Shanghai, 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