Low-Carbon Transition Policies and Challenges for Renewable Energy Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 48
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renewable energy; low-carbon transition
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Dear Colleagues,
More than 160 countries have committed to carbon neutrality by 2050 or before 2060. Renewable energy development plays a key role in the energy transition. Many studies already exist in relation to the policies and the roadmaps towards renewable energy by 2050. However, significant progress has been seen in relation to renewable technologies, especially solar PV and wind power, together with power storage and micro-grid technologies. With other driving forces including rapid temperature increases, the world needs to respond to climate change and make a much stronger and rapid transition by 2030, working towards new demands in order to understand every aspect of the drastic rise in renewable energy. In the meantime, technologies including electric vehicles, green hydrogen, and industrial products from green hydrogen have also seen a very fast progression. All of these technologies could give rise to a very different picture for renewable energy utilization. This Special Issue aims to present the most recent studies on renewable technology progress, their utilization and applications, micro-grids or independent grids, green hydrogen-integrated systems, and related policy assessments. Hopefully, these studies will contribute to the scaling up of renewable energy development.
Dr. Kejun Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- energy transition
- independent grid
- green hydrogen
- energy policies
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