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Sustainable Management of Energy Resources, Energy Strategies and Climate Change—2nd Edition

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2025 | Viewed by 4204

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Christos Vlachokostas

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Sustainability Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: engineering and sustainability management; circular economy; climate change and energy strategies; environmental engineering and management; waste management and energy utilization; decision support and risk assessment tools
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Dr. Charisios Achillas

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Department of Supply Chain Management, International Hellenic University, 60100 Katerini, Greece
Interests: data analytics; optimization techniques; circular economy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The energy sector is strongly associated with economic development, but also with enormous environmental pressure and climate change. Sustainable management of energy resources is a challenge that the global community is facing at environmental, social, economic and political levels. If this challenge is not faced efficiently, it will endanger human health, longevity, and the quality of both life and the environment. On this basis, robust energy strategies are required towards the direction of sustainable management and efficiently encountering climate change. Furthermore, climate change constitutes one of the largest challenges (if not the largest) that humanity will be called to address in the coming years. Climate change has caused nations, leaders, and citizens to focus on the way our societies operate and utilize natural and energy resources. It is of vital importance to support decisions for improving living standards, both in industrialized and developing countries, while minimizing the risks and costs of climate change damage. Mitigation and adaptation options should be under consideration. Promoting energy strategies/alternatives/measures to mitigate but also adapt to climate change is a multidimensional problem.

The present Special Issue, entitled “Sustainable Management of Energy Resources, Energy Strategies and Climate Change—2nd Edition”, provides a platform for policy-makers, scientists, academics, researchers, and practitioners to exchange knowledge and evidence related to energy-oriented alternatives for a roadmap towards a low-carbon economy and sustainable management of energy resources. To that end, we invite papers on innovative technological developments, methodological schemes, and decision support systems, as well as reviews and pilot studies that demonstrate new knowledge and near-to-market solutions within the research agenda of energy strategies for sustainable development, decarbonization, and encountering climate change.

Prof. Dr. Christos Vlachokostas
Prof. Dr. Charisios Achillas
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Keywords

  • decision support systems
  • clean energy
  • smart technological solutions
  • renewable energy sources
  • energy efficiency
  • energy poverty
  • decarbonization
  • energy communities
  • nature based solutions
  • CBA

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Exploring Flexibility Potential of Energy-Intensive Industries in Energy Markets
by Laureana Luciani, Juliana Cruz, Victor Ballestin and Boniface Dominick Mselle
Energies 2024, 17(12), 3052; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17123052 - 20 Jun 2024
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The European Union, in pursuit of the goal of reducing emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and achieving climate neutrality by 2050, is deploying different actions, with industry decarbonization as a key strategy. However, increasing electricity demand requires an intensification of energy [...] Read more.
The European Union, in pursuit of the goal of reducing emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and achieving climate neutrality by 2050, is deploying different actions, with industry decarbonization as a key strategy. However, increasing electricity demand requires an intensification of energy generation from clean technologies, and the energy system’s expansion is hindered by renewable generation’s climatic dependencies and the imperative for substantial electrical infrastructure investments. Although the transmission grid is expected to grow, flexibility mechanisms and innovative technologies need to be applied to avoid an overwhelming growth. In this context, this paper presents a thorough assessment, conducted within the FLEXINDUSTRIES project, of the flexibility potential across seven energy-intensive industries (automotive industry, biofuel production, polymer manufacturing, steel manufacturing, paper mills, pharmaceutical industry, and cement production). The methodology followed during the analysis entails reviewing the state-of-the-art existing flexibility mechanisms, industries’ energy markets engagement, and technical/operational readiness. The results highlight the feasibility of the proposed actions for enabling energy market flexibility through demand-response programs, quantifying energy opportunities, and pinpointing regulatory and technical barriers. Full article
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Closing the Loop between Waste-to-Energy Technologies: A Holistic Assessment Based on Multiple Criteria
by Christos Mertzanakis, Christos Vlachokostas, Charalampos Toufexis and Alexandra V. Michailidou
Energies 2024, 17(12), 2971; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17122971 - 17 Jun 2024
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This paper puts forward a generic methodological framework to holistically assess WtE technologies based on the PROMETHEE approach. In addition to environmental and economic aspects, the method focuses on large-scale applicability and social preference, thus adopting economic, environmental, social, and technological criteria. Three [...] Read more.
This paper puts forward a generic methodological framework to holistically assess WtE technologies based on the PROMETHEE approach. In addition to environmental and economic aspects, the method focuses on large-scale applicability and social preference, thus adopting economic, environmental, social, and technological criteria. Three data sources are selected, namely the scientific literature, a public survey, and an experts’ opinion survey, which is a novel combination with the aim to cover public consensus, technological applicability, and to provide alternative data sources for the economic and environmental criteria, thus enriching the methodology with the input of location specific data. The demonstration of the applicability of the proposed methodology is realized at a national level for the case of Greece. Anaerobic Digestion is shown to be the most preferable choice, recognized for its cost-effectiveness and lower environmental burden to other WtE technologies (i.e., gasification, pyrolysis, incineration). When all criteria are evaluated with equal weights, anaerobic digestion greatly outperforms incineration (net flow 0.833 versus 0.1667), while incineration only becomes the most preferred choice if the social criterion is in high focus (i.e., over 63% weight). Full article
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Analysis of Energy Security Based on Level of Alignment with the Goals of Agenda 2030
by Karolina Czerwińska and Andrzej Pacana
Energies 2024, 17(12), 2813; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17122813 - 7 Jun 2024
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In an era of a significant pace of economic, technological, and social development, an uninterrupted energy supply is one of the most important variables determining a country’s economic sovereignty, position in international relations, and quality of life. The aim of this study was [...] Read more.
In an era of a significant pace of economic, technological, and social development, an uninterrupted energy supply is one of the most important variables determining a country’s economic sovereignty, position in international relations, and quality of life. The aim of this study was to develop a method of multifaceted comparative analysis of energy security of neighboring countries (Poland and Slovakia) based on the level of fulfillment of selected goals of Agenda 2030 and related tasks. The analysis of energy security, due to its multifaceted nature, requires an examination of Goal 7 (clean and accessible energy) and the corresponding tasks associated with Goals 8, 9, and 13 of Agenda 2030. The research objective involved the analysis of energy dependence, electricity, diversification of gas supply, terminals and gas storage facilities, and clean energy. The countries studied are in the midst of achieving the goals of Agenda 2030, and the current rate of growth and relevance of the energy measures taken are promising. Further actions are recommended in the areas of diversification of generation capacity, appropriate levels of investment, availability of infrastructure and expertise, increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RES) and natural gas, and increasing efficiency in electricity consumption. Full article
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A Long-Term Power Supply Risk Evaluation Method for China Regional Power System Based on Probabilistic Production Simulation
by Jianzu Hu, Yuefeng Wang, Fan Cheng and Hanqing Shi
Energies 2024, 17(11), 2515; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17112515 - 23 May 2024
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To qualify the risk of extreme weather events for power supply security during the long-term power system transformation process, this paper proposes a risk probability evaluation method based on probabilistic production simulation. Firstly, the internal relationship of extreme weather intensity and duration is [...] Read more.
To qualify the risk of extreme weather events for power supply security during the long-term power system transformation process, this paper proposes a risk probability evaluation method based on probabilistic production simulation. Firstly, the internal relationship of extreme weather intensity and duration is depicted using the copula function, and the influences of extreme weather on power security are described using the guaranteed power output ability coefficient, which can provide the extreme scenario basis for probabilistic production simulation. Then, a probabilistic production simulation method is proposed, which includes a typical-year scenario and extreme weather events. Meanwhile, an index system is proposed to qualify the power security level, which applies the loss of load expectation (LOLE) and time of loss of load expectation (TOLE) under different scenarios and other indices to reveal the long-term power security trend. Finally, the long-term power supply risks for the Yunnan provincial power system are analyzed using the proposed method, validating that the proposed method is capable of characterizing the influences of extreme weather on power security. The security level of different long-term power transformation schemes is evaluated. Full article
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