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{"title":"Multi-objective optimization of vertical and horizontal solar shading in residential buildings to increase power output while reducing yearly electricity usage","authors":"Lei Zhang ,&nbsp;As'ad Alizadeh ,&nbsp;Mohammadreza Baghoolizadeh ,&nbsp;Soheil Salahshour ,&nbsp;Elimam Ali ,&nbsp;José Escorcia-Gutierrez","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115578","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115578","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>One of the effective strategies to reduce residential energy use is shading devices. Shading devices can be installed adjacent to windows in vertical or horizontal orientations to regulate the amount of sunlight entering a building. This study focuses on Photovoltaic Shading Devices (PVSDs), which combine traditional shading functions with photovoltaic (PV) technology. PVSDs are designed to block excessive sunlight and convert incident solar radiation into electricity, thereby serving dual purposes of energy conservation and renewable energy production.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>This work presents a multi-objective optimization of PVSD configurations to maximize power output and reduce annual electricity consumption in residential buildings. Nine design variables were optimized using EnergyPlus software for energy simulation and JEPLUS + EA software for optimization. The study analyzed four cities representing different climate types.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results showed that the use of solar shading for the city of Bandar Abbas reduces electricity consumption by 1000 kWh per year and also produces 1920 kWh of electricity. In the south, west, north, and east directions, electricity has improved between 15 and 37 %, 10–29 %, 7–22 %, and 7–30 % annually. The findings highlight the effectiveness of PVSDs in balancing energy efficiency and renewable energy production, with significant variations depending on climate and building orientation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115578"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of institutional quality on public renewable energy investments","authors":"Filip Halldén ,&nbsp;Anna Hultberg ,&nbsp;Ali Ahmed ,&nbsp;Gazi Salah Uddin ,&nbsp;Muhammad Yahya ,&nbsp;Victor Troster","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we examine the determinants of public renewable energy investments in 87 countries from 2011 to 2020, with a focus on 64 middle-income economies. Using panel quantile regression analysis, we explore how institutional quality, financial stability, and economic and policy conditions influence these investments. Our findings show that lower perceived corruption significantly boosts public renewable energy investments, particularly in middle-income countries with low to moderate investment levels. Financial stability, measured by bank Z-scores, positively affects investments, especially in middle-income countries with moderate to high levels of investment. Additionally, GDP per capita and government spending are significant drivers for high-investing countries, whereas foreign direct investment impacts low-investing countries. We also find that public investors are resilient to economic policy uncertainty, emphasizing their role during volatile periods. These results provide key insights for policymakers seeking to accelerate renewable energy transitions, especially in developing economies. Our study contributes to the understanding of public investment dynamics in the renewable energy sector and underscores the importance of institutional quality and financial stability in promoting these investments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115585"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications","authors":"Sara Jalali,&nbsp;Lidia Badarnah,&nbsp;Eleonora Nicoletti","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115586","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115586","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing significantly to sustainable and renewable energy solutions. Biomimetics presents a promising approach to adaptive design by drawing inspiration from nature’s solar management strategies. This research conducts a systematic review of biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes (Bio-ASBEs), classifying them into three key solar management strategies: solar regulation, solar harvesting, and thermoregulation. A comparative analysis of existing studies highlights trends, gaps, and opportunities in the field. Findings indicate growing interest in biomimetic solutions for solar management, with a predominant focus on energy efficiency. However, the study identifies limited research on energy harvesting and indoor environmental quality, as well as a reliance on shading techniques, potentially overlooking alternative thermoregulation and solar harvesting strategies. Furthermore, the study highlights the scarcity of mixed-method research, emphasizing the need for multifaceted approaches that integrate, qualitative and quantitative data into actionable solutions. Finally, this study reveals the untapped potential of biomimetic solar management strategies, demonstrating how integrating solar harvesting, regulation, and thermoregulation can drive the development of adaptive, energy-efficient building envelopes. By bridging research gaps and exploring nature-inspired multifunctional solutions, it paves the way for scalable, climate-responsive technologies that support net-zero goals and a more sustainable built environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115586"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thermochemical technologies for industrial waste heat recovery: A comprehensive review","authors":"Hamid Reza Rahbari ,&nbsp;Brian Elmegaard ,&nbsp;Evangelos Bellos ,&nbsp;Christos Tzivanidis ,&nbsp;Ahmad Arabkoohsar","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The industrial sector releases a considerable amount of energy as waste heat. Recovering this waste heat potential and reusing that for process heat applications is valuable from both economic and sustainability points of view. In most cases, however, direct reuse of the recovered heat is challenging, and a temperature-lifting step using heat upgrading technologies is inevitable. Thermochemical heat transformers are a group of technologies that have gained remarkable attention for this purpose. Unlike mechanical heat pumps that use electricity as the driving force, thermochemical machines use thermal energy to upgrade the waste heat streams, which is an advantage in many cases. Additionally, some of these offer much higher temperatures than those of heat pumps, giving them a broader applicability. This comprehensive review evaluates the effectiveness and potential use of thermochemical heat transformers, exploring their potential for recovering industrial waste heat in various applications, with a certain focus on temperatures below 200^oC where both waste heat streams and process heating demand are most abundant. The literature survey indicates that these systems have mostly been used for lower temperatures in the past, but with further innovations and technological advances, their coverable temperature in different technological classes has increased significantly, making them highly advantageous for waste heat recovery and upgrading in diverse industries. The deep insight that this article provides into this technological transition, the pros and cons of various classes of these, and their development perspectives, make it a must-read piece of research for scientists, engineers, and professionals working in this area.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115598"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘Should end-users take their clothes off inside on a cold winter's day? Sustainability pressures on district heating professionals in Denmark’ [Renew Sustain Energy Rev Volume 207, January 2025, 114912, 1–12]","authors":"K. Johansen ,&nbsp;P. Upham","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115580","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115580"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review on small-signal stability of multiple virtual synchronous generators","authors":"Kaiyu Liu ,&nbsp;Tao Qian ,&nbsp;Wang Zhang ,&nbsp;Shaohui Wu ,&nbsp;Rushuai Han ,&nbsp;Kai Hou ,&nbsp;Zaijun Wu ,&nbsp;Qinran Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115543","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The extensive incorporation of renewable energy sources into the power grid has resulted in a loss of system inertia due to power electronic devices that lack physical inertia, which presents difficulties for frequency stability. Furthermore, the high degree of uncertainty surrounding renewable energy production can significantly affect the power system’s small-signal stability. Virtual synchronous generator (VSG) can emulate the operational characteristics of traditional synchronous generators (SG), providing inertia support to ensure stable system operation. However, the extensive parallel integration of VSGs into the grid introduces new instability factors. This paper focuses on the small-signal stability issues of parallel VSGs. First, small-signal models of the single-machine and multi-machine VSG are established, analyzing its stability issues from a mathematical perspective. Second, the paper details the primary analysis methods for small-signal stability, which are divided into two categories: the state-space method and the impedance modeling method. Third, the paper examines the factors that affect small-signal stability of VSG. Next, several methods to enhance the small-signal stability are reviewed. Finally, the prospects of VSG’s small-signal stability are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115543"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143580610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dual-crop basis residue-retained bed-planting and zinc fertilization lead to improved food-energy-water-carbon nexus in pearl millet-wheat cropping system in semi-arid agro-ecologies","authors":"Amaresh Pradhan ,&nbsp;K.S. Rana ,&nbsp;Anil K. Choudhary ,&nbsp;R.S. Bana ,&nbsp;Shobit Thapa ,&nbsp;Amit K. Dash ,&nbsp;Jyoti P. Singh ,&nbsp;Amit Kumar ,&nbsp;M.N. Harish ,&nbsp;Mohammad Hasanain ,&nbsp;Adarsh Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115579","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115579","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amidst the current environmental challenges that exert immense pressure on the arable lands, adopting highly productive, eco-friendly conservation agriculture is crucial to feed the growing population. Low-cost approaches like residue-retention on permanent-beds with AM-fungi (AMF), can boost productivity, carbon-sequestration, and reduce energy and carbon footprints in water-scarce semi-arid areas. Current study quantified the crop and water productivity, energy and monetary budgeting, carbon-footprints, and carbon-sequestration of three planting-methods (PMs) and five Zn-fertilization practices (ZFPs) in pearl millet-wheat cropping system (PWCS). Results showed that BP + R + AMF (Bed-planting + residue-retention + AMF) registered 19.6, 15.4, 15.2, 20.6 and 16.3 % higher system-productivity, energy-output, carbon-output, SOC-stock, and net-returns in PWCS over FB-R (Flat-bed with no-residues), respectively. BP + R + AMF also registered significantly lower water-footprints by 21.2, 18.3 and 19.5 % in pearl millet, wheat, and PWCS over FB-R, respectively. Total CO₂-e-emissions were higher (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05) under PMs, BP + R + AMF (4268.7 kg CO₂-e ha⁻¹) over FB-R (2905.5 kg CO₂-e ha⁻¹). Among ZFPs, Z₄ (Soil + foliar applied Zn) had considerably higher system-productivity (17.7 %), bio-energy output (15.3 %), carbon-output (15.1 %) and net-returns (24.4 %) over no-Zn in PWCS. Overall, planting on permanent-beds with dual crop-basis residue-retention at 2.5 t ha⁻¹ crop⁻¹ coupled with AMF (BP + R + AMF) as well as combined Zn-fertilization may significantly enhance the system-productivity, net-returns, water-productivity, bioenergy-output, carbon-output, and carbon-stock in PWCS compared to FB-R and no-Zn. However, the farmers need to strike a balance while mulching crop-residues besides necessitating planting on raised-beds with AM-fungi and Zn-fertilization for clean, ecologically-friendly, and energy-efficient PWCS to ensure food security and mitigate climate-change in Zn-deficit semi-arid agro-ecologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115579"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimization and machine learning analysis of a small-scale oscillating water column (OWC) in regular waves: A computational study","authors":"Tarek Eid ,&nbsp;Hamzeh Hashem ,&nbsp;Dilara Yetgin ,&nbsp;Abdalla Alkhaledi ,&nbsp;Mustafa Tutar","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115577","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115577","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing the global challenge of energy scarcity necessitates innovative solutions like oscillating water columns (OWC), which offer significant potential in renewable energy. This study introduces a conceptual design and optimization of a small-scale OWC. A finite volume method (FVM) based wave modelling approach integrated with a volume of fluid (VOF) method is proposed to model and simulate the two-phase, viscous, time dependent, turbulent flow in a numerical wave flume (NWF) for realistic representation of wave propagation around the OWC model. Once validated against theoretical and experimental data with an error of 0.74 %, the present numerical methodology is extended to comprehensively optimize the OWC model by sampling varying geometric dimensions under different wave flow conditions using Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS). This approach aims to not only improve efficiency but also to enhance the understanding of how these parameters affect overall performance. This is supported by machine learning analyses, such as feature importance and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), which facilitate to understand the effect of each input parameter. Key findings include the ratio of chamber height to chamber length (<em>H</em>_<em>1</em><em>/L</em>) exhibiting the greatest impact on OWC efficiency, while the ratio of channel height to channel length (<em>H</em>_<em>2</em><em>/l</em>) showing the least significance. Additionally, the response surface analysis reveals the optimum ranges of the parameters and highlights the necessity of multi-variable optimization utilized in this study. Optimum dimensions result in a primary efficiency of 45 %, while the least efficient is found to be 2 %, emphasizing the critical importance of optimization in increasing OWC efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115577"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stakeholder engagement for co-designing European climate and energy research priorities","authors":"Emir Fejzic,&nbsp;Will Usher","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitutes a global commitment that necessitates the development of innovative strategies to integrate research, policy, and practice effectively. In the European Union (EU), multi-stakeholder engagement has become a vital strategy for tackling complex climate and energy research challenges. This approach is crucial to establishing research priorities that effectively address SDGs 7 and 13. Despite its recognized importance, the existing literature offers no comprehensive overview and guidance on effective multi-stakeholder engagement in EU-funded climate and energy research. This study shows that a scoping review, combined with stakeholder co-design workshops, can reveal key gaps and inform guidelines for robust multi-stakeholder engagement. A systematic review of 23 published articles using criteria drawn from the broader stakeholder engagement literature found that engagement terminology is rarely defined and often used interchangeably, indicating a gap between the literature and its real-world application. This study also provides guidelines for conducting effective stakeholder engagement, drawing upon the broader stakeholder engagement literature, the outcomes of the scoping review, and lessons learned during the European Climate and Energy Modelling forum project. Three co-design workshops engaging 85 stakeholders conducted in 2021 and 2022 uncovered 83 research priorities centred on policy, regulation, and using energy and climate models to inform policymaking. These research priorities are provided as an open data set. The findings of the study underscore the need for standardized engagement practices to enhance the impact of EU-funded climate and energy research and guide future policy and research initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115574"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving power performance of sediment microbial fuel cell through Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) assisted boosting of cathodic activity","authors":"Arup Dutta ,&nbsp;Lepakshi Barbora ,&nbsp;Devard Stom ,&nbsp;Pranab Goswami","doi":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rser.2025.115565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) are emerging as a promising green energy technology with enormous application potential for wastewater treatment and linked electrical energy production. However, the practical application of these devices is challenged by their low-performance factors pertaining to the imbalanced electrolyte and oxygen levels and weak cathodic functions in open environment conditions. This study explored to address the poor performance of the SMFC by coupling it with a free-floating aquatic plant, Water lettuce. Growth of the plant balanced the catholyte pH in the range of 7.2–7.6, increased the ionic conductivity by 60 %, stabilized the sub-surface water oxygen level, and boosted the cathodic potential by ∼102 mV and ∼49 mV in open and close circuit operations mode, respectively. The cumulative effect of these inputs led to producing a power density of 22.45 mW/m² and a current density of 136.84 mA/m² at 2 kΩ and 50 Ω loads, respectively. The enhanced cathodic performance was also attributed to the colonization of Water lettuce root bacteria as biofilm on the cathode that supported catalytic oxygen reduction on the graphite electrode. Metagenonic analysis indicated the biofilm is created mostly by aerobic microbes such as <em>Ferrovibrio terrae, Comamonas aquatic, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Hydrogenophaga taeniospiralis</em> etc. bearing catalase enzyme, <em>Pannonibacter phragmitetus, Streptococcus pyogenes</em>, <em>Streptococcus mutans</em> etc. bearing heme enzyme and these microbes synergistically catalysed cathodic reduction reactions. This study demonstrated the positive role of Water lettuce in boosting the power performance of SMFC mainly by activating the cathodic functions of the setup.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":418,"journal":{"name":"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 115565"},"PeriodicalIF":16.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}