Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

12/07/2024

As the cheapest, easiest and fastest technology to install, photovoltaic (PV) generation continues to expand around the world, bolstered by both government incentives and market demand.

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Study debuts new modeling technique to explore spatiotemporal features at multiple sites

09/07/2024

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This Special Topic is still open for submissions! Submit by October 17, 2024.

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08/07/2024

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This Special Topic is still open for submissions! Submit by August 30, 2024.

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01/07/2024

Matteo Cavalleri had an outstanding trip to China, meeting with colleagues including Lin Yang and Ying Li and JRSE EiC Zhenhong Lin. Their activities included a tour of South China University of Technology, a visit to China Spallation Neutron Source and many memorable meals!

27/06/2024

A scientometrics analysis of the ecological impact of photovoltaic projects is conducted by using co-occurrence and cluster analysis to discover hot research subjects and evolving trends.

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The topic of global climate change has heated up in recent years, and other environmental and energy-related challenges have been continuously gaining attention

18/06/2024

This study introduces a novel online SOC estimation method for Li-ion batteries, employing end-cloud collaboration and deep learning models to ensure high accuracy and real-time performance.

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This paper introduces an innovative online state of charge (SOC) estimation method for lithium-ion batteries, designed to address the challenges of accurate and

03/06/2024

Many building owners, from individuals with single family homes to corporations that manage skyscrapers, are looking at ways to increase their energy efficiency. This could mean cutting down on the energy used by the building, but it could also mean integrating renewable energy generation into the building to offset some of that energy usage.

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Wind tunnel experiments offer insight on placement and optimization strategies for harvesting wind energy on smaller scales.

15/05/2024

📢 Call For Papers

This Special Topic is dedicated to celebrating the 60+x’th birthday of Professor Charles Meneveau following the “Flow, Turbulence and Wind Energy” symposium held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 17-20 October 2023. Submit by October 17, 2024!

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10/05/2024

Physics-informed blade pitch control technologies can improve vertical-axis turbine performance by 27.4% to 704.0% across a wide spread of wind speeds. UMBC

In this study, we developed active physics-informed turbine blade pitch control methods to conquer the inconsistent energy harvesting efficiency challenges

03/05/2024

Nearly half of America’s residential water is heated by methane gas. In California, a quarter of a typical household’s energy budget goes into water heating.

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Using weather reports, solar-resource availability, and installation data, researchers identified where Californians solar-powered water heaters can best r

01/05/2024

📢 Call For Papers
The Special Topic explores innovative approaches, methodologies, and technologies in the field of smart energy management, focusing on the integration of renewable resources and the utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Submit by August 30, 2024.

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08/04/2024

The world is increasingly looking to renewable energy sources as cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels. While employing wind turbines and solar panels may help avert some of the effects of climate change, designing, manufacturing, and installing these devices can produce their own waste.

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Implementing circular economy principles into the design, manufacture, and construction of renewable energy projects leads to a cleaner, more sustainable e

05/04/2024

To avert the worst effects of climate change, humanity not only has to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, but also recapture much of the CO2 that it has produced over the last few centuries.

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Wind turbines can affect the carbon dioxide concentration in their wake, leading to potential synergies with carbon capture technologies.

23/03/2024

A dynamic wave drag model is developed to quantify the effects of multiscale waves on the atmospheric boundary layer. The model is applied to offshore farms to study the wind-wave-wake interactions.

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Due to the multitude of scales present in realistic oceanic conditions, resolving the surface stress is computationally intensive, motivating modeling approache

14/03/2024

Inspired by agrivoltaics and other creative PV applications, we simulate non-traditional PV plant designs that passively cool the solar panels, which can increase power output and panel life.

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07/03/2024

This study introduces a metrological approach to measure the aerodynamic shape and angular position of airfoil twist in a low power wind turbine blade.

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This study introduces a metrological approach to measure the aerodynamic shape and the twist of a wind turbine blade. The optical profilometer measurement techn

26/02/2024

As solar panel popularity grows, they are increasingly being built in multi-use areas. For example, agrivoltaic systems combine solar panels above farming land, maintaining agricultural activities. While this maximizes land usage, it comes at a cost.

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25/02/2024

Dekker et al. have, for the first time, performed millisecond measurements on dynamic shading from wind turbine blades on a solar farm, showing interesting effects on the solar farm performance. TNO

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The Dutch climate agreement anticipates the large-scale implementation of solar and wind energy systems on land and water. Combining solar and wind farms has th

22/02/2024

A hybrid energy storage system containing hydrogen energy storage and compressed air energy storage are proposed. The system aims to reconfigure the energy storage devices by an economical means.

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20/02/2024

This article shows how a nuclear integrated energy system can efficiently power end-use demands with varying temperature requirements using cascade heat utilization and thermal energy storage.

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Nuclear-renewable integrated energy systems (IES) consist of a variety of energy generation and conversion technologies and can be used to meet heterogeneous en

14/02/2024

The Temporal Fusion Transformer learns sky conditions from McClear model and historical Irradiance data to provide interpretable and accurate solar forecasts across various climates and horizons.

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Accurate prediction of solar irradiance is essential for the successful integration of solar power plants into electrical systems. Despite recent advancements i

06/02/2024

Large amounts of agro-industrial waste often remain untreated despite its immense potential to be transformed into liquid fuel. If treated properly, residues from major crops can provide alternative sources of energy that reduce carbon footprint.

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Exergoeconomic evaluations can optimize the energy efficiency of pyrolysis processes while minimizing economic costs.

02/02/2024

In our latest research article, the authors delve deep into the highlights of this emerging energy frontier: FPV.

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02/02/2024

At high temperatures, solar panels degrade faster and become less efficient. Stanislawski et al. simulated heat and air flow through photovoltaic (PV) plants to assess how various designs enhance PV module cooling.

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Computer simulations using systems-level approach based on fluid mechanics reveal how to cool solar panels.

28/01/2024

Strong spikes of solar radiation can be problematic, for some locations it is prudent to compare current design rules to sub hourly simulations to guarantee the fault-free operation of solar PV plants

The input of a solar inverter depends on multiple factors: the solar resource, weather conditions, and control strategies. Traditional design calculations speci

23/01/2024

Introducing WTB-DINO: a wind turbine blade damage detection model. Boosted accuracy & efficiency with UAV image analysis and improvement strategies. Achieves 93.2% precision, 93.6% recall.

15/01/2024

SWSA transformer is proposed based on global attention mechanism to forecast the complicated offshore wind speed in the ultra-short-term, which outperforms many popular models.

Accurate ultra-short-term wind speed forecasting is great significance to ensure large scale integration of wind power into the power grid, but the randomness,

12/01/2024

This article analyzes the wind shear, veer and low-level jets characteristics at the ARM Southern Great Plains.

The American wake experiment (AWAKEN) is taking place in northern Oklahoma, USA, close to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains (ARM SGP)

29/12/2023

This article presents a Large Eddy Simulation of the neutral ABL flow over complex terrain with validation based on data from fourteen met-towers using an improved neutral-stability sampling approach.

Large eddy simulation (LES) of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow over complex terrain is presented with a validation using meteorological tower (met-tow

25/12/2023

A unified multi-energy flow calculation model based on difference grid is established. Simulation results indicated that the proposed model is effective with high computation efficiency.

The comprehensive utilization of electricity, gas, and heat energy is an important way of energy transformation. However, different energy forms follow differen