Consumption of renewable energy resources plays a vital role in affecting carbon emissions. During the supply chain of renewable energy resources, carbon emissions badly affect the environment. Carbon emission is one of the significant problems in the manufacturing sector due to its high supply. Manufacturers and the government tried to mitigate it through several initiatives, such as focusing on carbon neutrality. There is a dire need to fill the gap in CO2 emission reduction using a carbon neutrality game during the consumption of renewable energy resources. Agent-based simulation optimization (ABSO) is a required method that helps to optimize renewable energy resources in supply chain management (SCM). Till now, nobody focused on the carbon neutrality gaming in the SCM of renewable energy resources using SBO. This special issue has a unique novelty as it helps the emission reduction as it produces environmentally friendly products. It solves the carbon emissions from production to the retailers' end. Manufacturers can use our research as a reference to move towards the carbon neutrality goals. In terms of profit maximization, it helps the decision makers of manufacturers to make a permanent decision on low carbon technology (LCT) during the inventory process. It also assists the manufacturers in maximizing the profit in SCM and making the environment cleaner. Additionally, this special issue of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews guides government to assist manufacturers with providing carbon neutrality gaming.

Guest editors:

Dr. Chien-Chiang Lee (Managing Guest Editor) Professor,
School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, China.
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-4347
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_MopwkkAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Chi-Chuan LeeAssociate Professor,
School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China.
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-1168
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uc903z8AAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari Chairperson - Research & Publications,
Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya (IIM Bodh Gaya), Gaya, Bihar, India.
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1822-9263
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fyTL_SsAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Jafar HussainAssociate Professor,
College of Finance and Economics, Nanchang Institute of Technology, China.
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7697-7991
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XdF3LrsAAAAJ&hl=en

Special issue information:

Topics

Renewable-energy-based climate solutions and their potential impacts
Renewable energy supply and consumption in the context of carbon neutrality
Impact of energy system transition toward carbon neutrality
Sustainable finance and renewable energy toward carbon neutrality
Renewable energy resource management to achieve carbon neutrality
Emission control during SCM of renewable energy resources
Optimization of renewable energy resources in the SCM
Application of ABSO in the SCM of renewable energy resources.
Carbon neutrality gaming and renewable energy resources
Key measures for the development of the renewable energy supply chain
Energy resources: trajectories for supply chain management
Using renewable energy to drive supply chain innovation
Sustainable and renewable energy supply chain
Role of financial innovation on renewable energy supply chain
Optimisation of regional energy supply chains utilising renewables

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18 August 2022

Interdisciplinary and cross regional energy system solutions for carbon neutrality

To tackling the challenge of global climate change, the world needs to achieve carbon neutrality between 2050 and 2070, which needs to accelerate the energy transition to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable energy system. As the gap in green house gas (GHG) emission reduction is widening, all countries and regions need to accelerate the low-carbon transition of energy systems, which puts forward higher requirements for technology innovation, management innovation and their comprehensive integration, and their invention and application speed is more urgently required than before.

This low-carbon energy transition is complex and dynamic in countries, regions and the world. At least, it involves the coordinated development of energy and economy, energy and society, energy and environment, energy and associated infrastructure, energy and various regions globally, which needs a lot of interdisciplinary and cross regional cooperative research. Only by strengthening interdisciplinary and cross regional cooperative research around the low-carbon transition of energy systems, will it be more possible to successfully address the challenge of global climate change.

Guest editors:

Prof. Ma Linwei, Managing Guest Editor, Tsinghua University, China; Email: [email protected]

Prof. Manfred Wirsum, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Email: [email protected]

Prof. Amit Kumar, University of Alberta, Canada; Email: [email protected]

Prof. Wei Peng, Penn State University, US; Email: [email protected]

Prof. Jing Meng, University College London, UK; Email: [email protected]

Prof. Chuan Zhang, Princeton University, US; Email: [email protected]

Special issue information:

The special issue on “Interdisciplinary and cross regional energy system solutions for carbon neutrality” (IDCR) invites research papers related to original ideas and new solutions for speeding low-carbon transition of energy systems. We hope that scholars from various countries can explore innovative ideas, theories, methods and cases in combination with global and national realities & future needs. The virtual special issue will especially encourage the exploration of original ideas and new solutions by advancing interdisciplinary and cross regional energy system modeling and analysis.

These academic contributions are expected to provide guidance for the development of cutting-edge theories of energy system modeling and analysis, as well as countries' low-carbon transition policies and technology innovation, contribute wisdom and solutions to the realization of global carbon neutralization, and help scholars from various countries carry out cooperative research.

Manuscript submission information:

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18 August 2022

Sustainable Management of Plastic Waste

Plastic waste management becomes imperative to prevent detrimental plastic-related environmental impacts. At the same time, plastic waste recycling has empirical significance and commercial worth for recuperation of resources and environmental welfare but to attain sustainable development, emphasis on greener technologies and management strategies for the transformation of waste plastic into valuable secondary resources conversion and products such as energy recovery, components of building construction, nanomaterial production, life cycle assessment process, energy resource minimization, polymer eco-design. Particularly, the recycling and energy recovery approaches are of the substitutes that have been debated and practiced in many countries to minimize the plastic waste generation, and extensive research works have been carried out on the technology and scientific strategic development to translate the plastic waste to bio-fuel and resources, however there is still a lack of reasonable discussion among the available technologies, precisely on the economic feasibility in industrial scale. Thus, the issue of plastic waste is very important and need to develop more advance technologies or some more advancement in available technology such as, microwave assisted pyrolysis; supercritical gasification, and plasma gasification, to solve the issue of energy crisis and white pollution can alleviate via fuel conversion from plastics, for example heat treatment of plastics generates high-value fuels, but requires high energy. Thus, fuel conversion from plastic waste is regarded as a promising strategy for its disposal and energy utilization. At the same time, also need to develop some new model to predict of plastic resource consumption and future forecast for waste plastic management and coordination of energy potential of residual waste, residual waste to energy recovery and storage to enhance environmental sustainability and conserving natural resources, minimize energy independence and decrease carbon footprint. Therefore, clearly urgent need for innovative scientific approaches linear to circular economy for plastic waste through best framework practice for global communities in context of plastic waste and climate change, lessons learned from past approaches, and appropriate control measures.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bridge diverse plastic waste streams of research ranging from environmental, energy recovery & energy conservation and resource economics to Innovation studies, to provide updated information and frontier research relevant for the future research, such as inspiration for energy utilization of plastic waste, addressing the issues of pollution and energy scarcity, and to recycle and reuse plastic waste in a way towards a better sustainable society.

The objective of this SI is to present interdisciplinary analyses, along specific plastic products’ or sectors ‘supply’ chains, however also in a broader viewpoint, capable of anticipating specific or system-wide significances of the transition as well as to choose the accurate policy combination.

Guest editors:

Dr Abhishek Kumar Awasthi (Managing Guest Editor / Lead Guest Editor); Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus, Nanjing, CHINA. Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Dr Michael Johnson; University of Limerick, Limerick, IRELAND. Email: [email protected]
Professor Seung Whee Rhee; Kyonggi University, Suwon, KOREA. Email: [email protected]
Professor Agamuthu Periathamby; Sunway University, MALAYSIA. Email: [email protected]
Dr Elsa Antunes; James Cook University, Douglas, Townsville, AUSTRALIA. Email: [email protected]

Special issue information:

Topic of interest (MUST be linked to Energy aspect) include but not limited to:

- Plastic waste recycling industry in sustainable business model perspectives, eco-design, sustainable business model’s development and supporting policies to facilitate the integration of plastic industry

- Analysis of economic and environmental issues of plastic manufacturing and recycling

- Plastic waste life cycle assessment

- Plastic consumption in circular systems (industrial, commercial and residential scenarios)

- Waste plastic management and coordination of energy potential of residual waste, residual waste to energy recovery and storage to enhance environmental sustainability and conserving natural resources, minimize energy independence and decrease carbon footprint

- Cost benefit analysis for plastic waste recycling and management

- Environmental impacts reduction and energy conservation through bioplastics/ biodegradable plastic packaging waste

- Environmental and socio-economical aspects of plastics

- Impact of plastic pollution on economic growth and sustainable development

- Model predictions of plastic resource consumption and future forecast

- Innovative scientific approaches, best framework practice for global communities in context of climate change, lessons learned from past approaches, and appropriate control measures.

Manuscript submission information:

The VSI welcomes original research articles and review articles that address questions directly linked to the Sustainable Management of Plastic Waste and meet the RSER scope. All papers submitted to this VSI must meet RSER’s requirements, including scope, length, and language. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/renewable-and-sustainable-energy-reviews/1364-0321/guide-for-authors

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Timeline:

Submissions close on 31 October 2022

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4 August 2022

Evolution of Energy Justice for a 2060 Sustainable World

Energy justice has emerged as a hot topic in research over the last decade. It will continue in importance as countries continue to need energy for further economic development. Many countries also face the challenges of replacing aged energy infrastructure and develop clean energy in accordance with their Paris UN COP21 2030 commitments. This Special Issue examines energy justice within the 2060 energy and climate targets announced in 2021 (and at the Glasgow UN COP26). In order to have a sustainable world beyond 2060, energy justice has to be at the heart of decision-making and activities of the energy sector.

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21 July 2022

Hydrogen for low carbon sustainable future

Currently, fossil fuels meet up 85% of the global energy demand, but their use releases massive amounts of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, and their continued use presents enormous challenges with regards to global warming, rising sea levels, and climate change. Therefore, the world needs to urgently transition from the current fossil fuel-based energy system to a cleaner, low to net-zero carbon economy to achieve the ambitious target of limiting global temperature by 1.5°C. During the recent UN climate conference, COP 26 at Glasgow, many countries announced their low carbon energy transition strategies by featuring hydrogen as the key player in their carbon pledges. Hydrogen is a clean, safe and versatile energy carrier that may act as a missing link to decarbonise all end-use energy sectors and creat a sustainable net-zero carbon society. Although hydrogen has been a promising alternative to fossil fuel, large-scale and cost-effective hydrogen production, storage, transmission, distribution, infrastructure investment, and policy regulations are potential challenges that need to be addressed immediately.

Guest editors:

Prof. Yong Liu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. Email: [email protected]

Prof. Peter Pintauro, Vanderbilt University, USA. Email: [email protected]

Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Email: [email protected]

Special issue information:

In this special issue, we invite the submission of original research articles and reviews on the following specific areas or related topics:

1. Design and assessment of hydrogen production from fossil fuel with low carbon technologies and renewable energy sources

2. Techno-economic analyses of hydrogen storage, transmission and distribution

3. Physical, materials related hydrogen applications

4. Hydrogen transition opportunities in industry, transportation, and the building and energy sectors

5. Policy, regulation, and economic aspects of shifting towards a hydrogen economy

6. Achieving direct and indirect targets of sustainable development goals through green hydrogen.

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18 July 2022

Energy supervision model and energy security strategy in the era of carbon neutrality

Global climate change has become one of the greatest challenges to human development and has contributed significantly to global political consensus and major actions to address climate change (Toops et al., 2021). In the special report on global warming released by IPCC in 2018, it pointed out that limiting global warming temperature below 1.5 ℃ necessitates global net-zero carbon emission or carbon neutralization (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018) by mid-century. The global target has also led to a growing number of carbon neutrality pledges by major economies (Soest et al., 2021). Therefore, technologies such as CO₂ capture and storage (CCS) and negative emissions technologies (NETs) will be needed (Haszeldine et al., 2018). Meanwhile, energy activities are critical in controlling carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality targets ( Finnerty et al., 2018). The rapid development of renewable energy and natural gas, and nuclear power industries have created positive conditions for achieving carbon neutrality. However, the short-term cost of reducing carbon emissions and the differences in national development have made it impossible for countries in the world to unite in combating the impact of climate change (Luttrell et al., 2018).

Many issues need to be resolved before we can transition towards a low-carbon economy, these include energy security and sustainable energy management (Valdes, 2021; Luthra et al., 2015), clean energy (Mangla et al., 2020), energy industry chain (Cucchiella and Adamo, 2013), structural adjustments in the energy supply and consumption side (Jiang et al., 2020), energy price mechanism (Li et al., 2021), etc. Energy supervision refers to the activities of regulating, managing, supervising and handling the relevant activities of the energy sector through relevant state organs, government departments or other authorized or entrusted institutions or organizations based on the needs of the state or social public interests, to promote effective energy competition, prevent monopoly and form a top-down effective supervision mechanism (Hu, 2014). In addition to formulating and improving regulations, policies, plans, and carbon reduction action plans, the government should continue to strengthen and innovate energy supervision, focus on filling safety shortcomings, and continuously promote the high-quality development of energy in the new era.

The rapid zero-carbonization of the energy system is one of the necessary conditions for achieving the vision of carbon neutrality (Energy Transitions Commission, 2020). With the substantial increase in global energy trade, the growing awareness of environmental protection and the continuous progress in energy technology, the energy mix of various countries has changed significantly (Sutrisno et al., 2021). In the near future, the global economy is still in the stage of medium and high-speed development, and energy demand continues to grow. The high-quality development of energy in the new era requires new strategies for energy security and high-quality energy supervision, so as to promote the high-quality development of energy in the new era, realize energy transformation, and build a clean, low-carbon, efficient, and intelligent new energy supply system through various channels to ensure sustainable development.

Climate change and energy security continue to pose new challenges to countries, with changes in energy demand. The government’s policies and strategies have shaped new ways of energy production and use. They have had a significant impact on energy demand (Butler et al., 2018), making energy supervision an important content for countries to promote zero-carbonization of energy systems and energy governance in recent years (Dominković et al., 2016). However, energy governance and supervision are often considered the background factors of energy transformation and structural optimization rather than the key to shaping zero carbonization of energy systems (Cox et al., 2019). We know that deepening the reform of energy systems is the key to building a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient modern energy system and promoting the green development of the energy industry (Winskel and Kattirtzi, 2020), The intensity and scope of energy supervision are crucial to the reform of energy system. Therefore, we need more legislative means to provide legal protection for the realization of carbon neutrality from the perspective of government supervision, and enhance the implementation, hoping to accelerate the speed and efficiency of carbon neutrality.

In the context of carbon neutralization, energy system optimization has become a meaningful way and means to achieve zero carbon transition (Millot et al., 2020). In the process of system optimization, we can look at problems in a more holistic way, reasonably avoid the potential unintended effects of the implementation new strategy, and further ensure the sustainable development of the country and region’s sustainable economy and ecological environment during the zero-carbon transition(Chen et al., 2020). Nowadays, various countries mainly build energy supervision systems from the aspects of organizational system, management responsibilities, management methods and institutional settings(Yang et al., 2020). Strengthening national energy security and establishing energy supervision model have become the inevitable choice for sustainable development of all countries.

The main objective of this special issue is to explore strategies that will address energy security in the context of carbon neutrality and invite scholars and practitioners to analyse how to achieve energy security and energy supervision in carbon neutrality. We welcome theoretical, quantitative empirical and multi-method analysis of energy security strategy and energy supervision model. We advocate redefining energy security and energy supervision, expand the original fossil energy system, and take energy sustainability and energy equity into consideration.

Guest editors:

Dr. Malin Song, Ph.D. (Managing Guest Editor)

Collaborative Innovation, Center for Ecological Economics and Management, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China.

[email protected] ; [email protected]

Dr. Sachin K Mangla, Ph.D.

Jindal Global Business School, O P Jindal Global University, India

Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, UK

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Prof. Kathleen B. Aviso

Department of Chemical Engineering, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

[email protected]

Prof. Raymond R. Tan

Department of Chemical Engineering, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

[email protected]

Special issue information:

Some potential topics are listed as follows:

Changes in energy structure caused by decarbonization

Energy security strategy in the context of carbon neutrality

Energy revolution and energy security strategy

Impact of energy demand governance on the energy system

Supervision channels and means of energy supervision

Energy supervision model under the background of carbon neutrality

Energy development direction under the background of decarbonization

Energy supervision and its impact on global climate change

Industry 4.0 techniques on energy supervision and security in net zero

Integration of NETs into decarbonized energy systems

Energy and carbon emissions trading

Notes for Prospective Authors

The proposed papers should neither have been previously published nor be under active consideration for publication elsewhere. Instructions for authors can be found at the publisher’s website.

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Timeline:

Contributors with proposals for papers are encouraged to communicate with the editors by e-mail. Papers that are currently under preparation are welcome, but we also expect papers to be written as a result of this call. The deadline for submission is December 31, 2022. Early submission is strongly recommended. The refereeing process starts once the paper is received. Accepted papers will be published online individually. The following important dates will guide the development of this SI

Submissions close on 31 December 2022
Target Publication Date: June 2023

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5 July 2022

Key enabling technologies, strategies and policies: Carbon neutrality pathway in developing and developed countries of Asia

A consensus has been reached at COP26 that the 2020s will be a critical decade for accelerating the response to the global climate crisis. Specifically, more efforts should be devoted to the carbon emission reductions and limitations for limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared with the pre-industrial level. Currently, dozens of countries and regions have proposed ambitious roadmaps to achieve Net Zero/Carbon Neutrality between 2040 and 2060. Asia is home to some of the world’s largest carbon emitters — both developing and developed counties, due to which much of global efforts to fight climate change depends on Asian countries cutting their reliance on fossil fuel resources.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Carbon emission treatment, measurement, and analysis technologies in energy systems.
Planning and operation of high renewable energy penetrated energy systems.
Planning and management of distributed renewable generation, new flexible loads (EVs, smart buildings, etc.), hydrogen energy, and energy storage.
Planning and operation of resilient integrated energy systems.
Emerging technologies for decarbonised energy systems.
Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of things and Digital twin-based decarbonisation technologies.
Other digitalisation factors for decarbonisation.
Coordinated design, planning, and operation of carbon emission markets and renewable energy markets.
Policy/economic instruments for facilitating decarbonisation transition.
Digitalisation facilities，technologies，productions and policy for decarbonisation of Asia.

Guest editors:

Dr. Zhile Yang ([email protected])Shenzhen institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China

Dr. Siqi Bu ([email protected])
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Prof. Jing Liang ([email protected])
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Prof. Fangxing Li ([email protected])
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Dr. Yunhe Hou ([email protected])
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Dr. Kailong Liu ([email protected])
WMG, University of Warwick, UK

Dr. Sohail Khan ([email protected])
Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence, Haripur, Pakistan

Dr. Yi Fan ([email protected])
National University of Singapore, Singapore

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1 July 2022

Special Issue in Challenges and Advances in decarbonising Transportation (CAT)

Achieving net-zero is becoming one of the most urgent challenges for decades to come. To achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050 and beyond, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions in all energy sectors. In this context, transport sector is extremely difficult to decarbonise due to many complex challenges. The EPSRC set up five networks for understanding challenges and developing advances in decarbonising transportation:

• DecarboN8
• DTE
• NewJet Network+
• Decarbonising the UK's Freight Transport
• Network-H2.

CAT aims to provide a collection of new understandings and advances from not only these five networks, but also relevant communities to pave the ways for better decarbonising transportation.

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29 June 2022

Sustainability in Bioeconomy: Post COP26 challenges and opportunities

Bioeconomy is an integral part of policies of several nations, but its sustainability has always been a subject of debate. Therefore, to strengthen its sustainability after COP26 understanding the challenges and scientific preparedness associated with multiple supply and value chains within different scales of enterprises is urgently needed. This issue will address research on strategies for the utilization of land and biological resources, production of biomass, and innovations for conversion technologies, to develop effective and economic biobased products and social change for market shift. Here we invite research and review papers that can contribute to making circular bioeconomy sustainable.

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20 June 2022

Electricity Islands

An “Electricity island” is a term that describes an autonomous electrical power system that is not connected to any other power system. As a result, such systems need to operate on a “stand-alone” basis and optimize their various resources to address all the electric needs of the consumers they serve in the most reliable, efficient, and economical manner. Electricity islands come in different sizes and forms and include real islands surrounded by sea, such as Hawaii or the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, or countries like Israel, that due to geopolitical reasons are not connected to neighboring grids. Electricity islands also include remote microgrids that are not or cannot be connected to the main grid, due to high cost or technical barriers, and grid-connected microgrids that at times disconnect from the main grid and become islanded microgrids.

This special issue is dedicated to electricity islands of different kinds, with the aim of providing a well-rounded and cutting-edge view and understanding of their unique characteristics. We invite articles that review, examine and explore the political, technical, operational, and economic challenges that the various types of electricity islands face; the strategies applied to achieve energy security and resilience in electricity islands; the roles that demand-side could play in electricity islands; technological and social innovations in electricity islands; lessons to be learned from electricity islands to future energy systems; extreme field applications for electricity islands (e.g., space microgrids) and more.

Guest editors:

Professor Yael Parag, Reichman University, Israel

Professor Josep M. Guerrero, Aalborg University, Denmark

Dr. Alexander Micallef, L-Universita ta Malta

Prof. Jiefeng Hu, Federation University Australia

Ms. Ritu Kandari, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi

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Following topics may be included:

Identity, governance, economy, employment, community diversity, public engagement, management of intermittency in low-carbon power generation, storage and competing flexibility options, integration of energy vectors and uses, managing distributed virtual & multi-purpose and hybrid storage.

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20 June 2022

Big Data Ecosystem in Renewable Energy

Effective implementation of big data techniques provides more sustainable solutions across various industries to reap benefits in decades to come, where energy is not an exception. In recent years, renewable energy sources have gained immense popularity due to their widespread advantages. Further, more and more countries have started focusing on renewable energy sources to meet their sustainable energy demands and to combat the harmful effects of climate change. With the growing number of smaller renewable power generation plants, the energy industry faces the necessity of digital transformation to effectively integrate its multitude of production points into the energy infrastructure. This gave rise to the evolution of smart grid technologies that incorporate information and communication technologies across every aspect of power generation, consumption, and distribution.

Big data technologies help in the seamless integration of inconsistent renewable energy sources and help efficient power distribution with the help of data insights. The energy sector heavily relies on the big data ecosystem (data sources, data management, data analytics, business intelligence, and knowledge discovery) to optimize and predict energy production, energy consumption, and energy grid balancing habits. Furthermore, due to rapid digital transformation, the energy industry generates massive amounts of data. To effectively turn this data into meaningful insights and improve productivity with lesser operational costs, energy industries heavily rely on big data technologies to assist their day-to-day functioning. To the most important, renewable energy is one of the emerging research fields that promises a lot in terms of sustainability and reasonable opportunities. The appropriate use of big data techniques assists in the efficient use of various renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, hydropower, and many more for human welfare and the environment. Hence, there is a critical need for research and development relating to big data to exploit these renewable energy resources efficiently. This will significantly minimize the environmental impacts, reduce cost, improve reliability and service, improve efficiency, and enhance the energy market. The research should comprise three major components: technological development (to attain increased production of renewable energy sources through the available natural resources), environmental awareness, and better management and distribution system. This special issue mainly focuses on technological and management aspects of big data in renewable energy, their challenges, and opportunities. Submissions that fall within the scope of this special issue are most invited.

Special issue information:

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

● Big data tools, platforms, and methodologies for renewable energy

● Synergy of big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence for effective integration of renewable energy sources in to smart grid

● Big data and data science for renewable energy

● Renewable energy forecasting and equipment efficiency with big data technologies

● Role of smart grid, big data, and IoT in renewable energy management

● Trends in big data for demand and safety management of renewable energy sources

● Big data for proactive maintenance of renewable energy resources across smart grid

● Clean and efficient power generation with big data

● Predicting and maximizing renewable energy production with big data analytics

● Innovations in data analytics and big data to address the challenges in the renewable energy sector

● Enabling big data technologies for renewable energy

● Secure and privacy preserving energy management with big data technologies

● Electric vehicles

● Storage energy systems

● Impact on cost and/or efficiency

● Energy storage system and hydrogen technologies

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15 June 2022

Digital Carbon Footprint Awareness for Reducing Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gases (GHGs): Recent Developments and Implications for Future Research

The digital sector produces a carbon footprint through different sources, for example, the consumption of energy in the course of production and utilization of a product/service, and the disposal of these products when their lifecycle ends (Raja, 2021; Shi et al., 2022; Truby, 2018). Companies can use the carbon footprint calculations to gauge their influence on the environment and also to convey this information to stakeholders. The carbon footprint measures the greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Gueddari-Aourir et al., 2022; Holmatov et al., 2021; Jager et al., 2022) emitted from human beings’ activities, which could have adverse impacts on climate change (Wiedmann & Minx, 2008). The current concerns about climate change (Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2019) have necessitated companies worldwide to enhance and communicate their overall sustainability regarding their offerings and operations. In this sense, in the broader context of the Green Deal (which was launched in 2019), the European Council (EC) has attempted to provide an action plan to finance sustainable development, which requires financial sectors to disclose their sustainability statuses and support the enhancement of the overall corporate transparency in sustainability issues, which includes their GHG emissions (Ludlow, 2018).

Guest editors:

Abbas Mardani (Managing Guest Editor), University of South Florida, United States; [email protected]

Fausto Cavallaro, Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy; [email protected]

Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan; [email protected]

Dawid Połap, Silesian University of Technology, Poland; [email protected]

Special issue information:

From the environmental perspective, digitalization has significantly contributed to reducing GHG emissions (Chowdhury, 2012; Kovacikova et al., 2021); for instance, it has decreased the worldwide traveling for work by preparing the stage ready for video conferencing and teleworking (Belkhir & Elmeligi, 2018). Digital services firms generally measure their data-related carbon footprint by considering the amount of energy consumed by the data centers hosting those data and the telecommunication networks that transmit the data (Malmodin & Lundén, 2018; Radonjič & Tompa, 2018). Digital devices/services require energy consumption to function and use water and land, which involves GHG emissions. This window of energy consumption is quickly widening with the tremendous growth of the number of digital users. Furthermore, it is not easy to accurately measure the global carbon footprint induced by digital devices/services since multiple sources could be taken into account for its environmental impact, including the energy consumed to manufacture, transport, and operate digital devices/services; the energy consumed by data centers and networks transmitting these data; the metals mined for these devices; and their disposal (Belkhir & Elmeligi, 2018).

A number of scholars (Belkhir & Elmeligi, 2018; Haldar & Sethi, 2022; Morley et al., 2018; Obringer et al., 2021; Shi et al., 2022; Taneja & Mandys, 2022) have predicted the record of unsustainable high carbon footprints of ICT in the middle-term future, which could happen due to some factors, for example, the increase in the data centers’ energy consumption and also the energy required for associated traffic (Preist et al., 2016). In addition, many researchers have highlighted the consumption and demand side of the issue (Jiang et al., 2021; Lange et al., 2020); it raises a question: How are digital services and applications implemented to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases? However, the literature lacks a clear way to measure digital carbon footprint to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases reliably, and, at the same time, it is increasingly necessary to make consumers engaged in the collective challenge of decreasing the impacts of digital applications and services upon the environment (Elgaaied-Gambier et al., 2020; Preist et al., 2016).

Furthermore, the digital carbon footprint is currently considered a worrying issue since its main source is energy consumption, which is anticipated to even increase in the future (Calabuig-Moreno et al., 2022). The quick growth of technology indicates an increasing dependence on people on digital devices/services (Lin & Johnson, 2021). On the other side, there is a need for economic development, which necessitates, in turn, marketing, and the most important assistant of marketing is advertising. In addition, advertisements are becoming more and more digital; as a result, there is a pressing need for the identification of measures for decreasing the GHG emissions and environmental impacts of digital or online advertisements.

The recent years have witnessed a steady growth in the global demand for digital services (Calcagni et al., 2019; Essebo, 2022; Stuermer et al., 2017), which has brought about a surge in the use of data and energy, which finally leads to a significant increase in the global digital carbon footprint. For that reason, those firms that provide digital services need to gauge their digital carbon footprint. To this end, they need to reshape their organizational strategies, processes, and culture. The current literature on the digital service industry reveals a gap in the ways to accelerate the adoption of digital carbon footprint measurement; it lacks a suitable framework for the incorporation of new sustainability initiatives into companies. On the other hand, a few researchers have focused on examining the way digital services firms introduce the computation of the carbon footprint of their services. More specifically, the literature lacks strategies to link organizational learning with the digital carbon footprint adoption in such firms, which is the focal point of the current special issue. The literature, however, consists of some academic studies carried out into the ways ICT technologies are implemented for organizational learning, and on those companies that use organizational learning as a transformation tool to make their services digitalized. Accordingly, the present special issue mainly aims:

To investigate the usefulness and need for digital services and devices to use different frameworks to adopt the digital carbon footprint to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases.
To explore the challenges for measurement of the carbon footprint from digital services and devices to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases.
To examine how digital services companies can introduce the calculation of the digital carbon footprint as a part of their sustainability measurements to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases.

In this special issue, we are interested in providing state‐of‐the‐art literature on carbon footprint, digital services, sustainability measurement, reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gases, and creating a consistent link between the carbon footprint, digital sector, digital products and sustainability context; therefore, we welcome high-quality and unpublished papers for this SI submission.

Call for papers on various issues including, but not limited to:

· Digital technologies enable digital carbon footprint to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases

· Internet of Things enabled digital carbon footprint to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases

· Sustainable business models and digital carbon footprint

· The digital carbon footprint for sustainable development goals

· Industry 4.0 technologies enabled digital carbon footprint to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases

· Blockchain-based digital carbon footprint

· The carbon footprint of manufacturing digitalization

· The energy footprint of the digital economy

· Digital product memories in the carbon footprint

· Digital modeling of energy consumption for carbon footprint assessment

· Adoption of digital carbon footprint in digital services companies

· Digital transformation for promoting carbon footprint reduction

· The carbon footprint of digital communication

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Timeline:

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Submissions close on 28 February 2023

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Gueddari-Aourir, A., García-Alaminos,A., García-Yuste, S., Alonso-Moreno, C., Canales-Vázquez, J., & Zafrilla,J. E. (2022). The carbon footprint balance of a real-case wine fermentation CO2capture and utilization strategy. Renewableand Sustainable Energy Reviews, 157,112058. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.112058

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Holmatov, B., Schyns, J. F., Krol, M.S., Gerbens-Leenes, P. W., & Hoekstra, A. Y. (2021). Can crop residuesprovide fuel for future transport? Limited global residue bioethanol potentialsand large associated land, water and carbon footprints. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 149, 111417. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111417

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27 May 2022

Intelligent Integration of Renewable Energy Resources

With over-reduction of fossil fuels and the increasing environmental pollutions, renewable energy, including wind energy, solar energy, hydroelectricity, etc., has attained great attention globally. The penetration of renewable energy into power grids is dramatically increasing. However, alternative renewable energy resources are intermittent with high uncertainty leading to uncertain power generation. This induces great challenges to the integration of renewable energy. Forecasting is an essential technique to facilitate the integration of renewable energy. Power forecasting of renewable energy resources especially probabilistic forecasting is yet an open question. Intelligent energy management on capacity planning, grid operations, and demand side management can be conducted with the forecasting information of power generation, electricity price, and electricity load. In recent years, electrical vehicles and energy storage have also been applied into the integration of renewable energy. The operation of electrical vehicles and energy storage is not yet fully addressed considering the uncertainty of power generation.

This special issue aims to attract original research articles that report the most recent advances on the intelligent integration of renewable energy resources as well as review papers which describe the current state of the art. The goal is that it provides an opportunity for us to gain a significantly better understanding of the current developments and the future direction of integration of renewable energy resources with intelligent approaches.

Guest editors:

Guest Editors:

Dr. Long Wang, University of Science and Technology Beijing; [email protected]

Dr. Zijun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong; [email protected]

Dr. Gaurav Dhiman, Government Bikram College of Commerce; [email protected]

Dr. Keping Yu, Hosei University; [email protected]

Special issue information:

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

● AI-based forecasting of power generation, electricity price, and electricity load

● Modeling and management of micro grids including renewable energy with intelligent approaches

● Scheduling and optimization of power systems including renewable energy based on computational intelligence

● Data-driven demand side management

● Electrical vehicles and energy storage participation in the integration of renewable energy via using IoT techniques

● Digital-twins for stimulating economic activities with renewable energy involved

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Submissions open on 20 May 2022
Submissions close on 31 December 2022

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26 May 2022

Recent Advances of Agri-Food 4.0 in Sustainable Agriculture Supply Chain

In the last few years, the fourth industrial revolution around the world has attracted a lot of attention. At its heart, the Fourth Industrial Revolution represents an unprecedented combination of digital, physical, biological, and other technologies, and a foreshadowed evolution in how products are made and used. The fourth industrial revolution, known as “Industry 4.0”, is a novel materiality of the modern economy where innovation and technological development play critical role in any organization. Industry 4.0 is remarkably able to reform products and manufacturing systems in terms of design, processes, operations and services. It is ongoing and is distinguished by a fusion of emerging and efficient technologies such as Machine Intelligence (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analysis (BDA), robotics, and blockchain technology.

Due to the above issues, industrial production operations and supply chains have gone well with a more autonomous and intelligent environment. Correspondingly, integrating Industry 4.0 and agriculture builds up the opportunity to remodel industrial agriculture for the next generation, namely, “Agri-Food 4.0”. In this context, sustainable and intelligent industrial agriculture is tackled through real-time fine-grained collection-processing-analyzing of big data in all facets of the agricultural industry, from food production, processing, and distribution to consumers. Moreover, changes in food preferences and lifestyle and also health issues should be considered in agriculture processes. With the help of such an industrial agriculture ecosystem integrated with instantaneous farm management, extreme automation, and data-driven expert decision support system would significantly enhance productivity, food safety, environmental effect, agri-food supply chain responsiveness/efficiency, and finally, the use of natural resources.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Alireza Goli - Managing Guest Editor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran; Email: [email protected]
Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Department of Industrial Engineering, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey; Email: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poland; Email: [email protected]

Special issue information:

The special issue on “Agri-Food 4.0 in Sustainable Agriculture Supply Chain” invites research papers related to the application and challenges of big data methods for modern agriculture supply chains. It is identified that the present shape of Agri-Food 4.0 is not fully matured and is keeps evolving day by day. There is a need for its base architecture framework to be standardized. In this regard, using big data analysis is suggested. This issue aims to provide an opportunity to all researchers, scholars, and scientists working in the area of big data analysis to share their results and outputs to the research fraternity to frame guidelines and build a roadmap for developing novel applications on the following potential topics and their applications, but are not limited to:

Intelligence farming and distribution in agriculture supply chain,
Circular economy for application of Agri-Food 4.0,
Application of IoT technology in agriculture supply chain,
Application of blockchain technology in agriculture supply chain,
Application of big data in agriculture supply chain management,
Agriculture supply chain network design optimization,
The role of Agri-Food 4.0. in controlling carbon emission,
The role of Agri-Food 4.0. in chaining food preference and lifestyle,
Machine learning for Agri-Food 4.0 development,
Artificial neural networks for Agri-Food 4.0 analysis,
Fuzzy interface systems in agriculture supply chain,
Novel meta-heuristics methods for Agriculture supply chain optimization.

Manuscript submission information:

The journal’s submission platform Editorial Manager: https://www.editorialmanager.com/rser/default1.aspx will be available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue from 30 July 2022. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of "VSI: Agri4SASC" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/renewable-and-sustainable-energy-reviews/1364-0321/guide-for-authors

Timeline:

Full Paper Submission will start on 30 July 2022
Full Paper Submission will close on 30 December 2022

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