Journal of Alternate Energy Sources & Technologies

Journal of Alternate Energy Sources & Technologies Journal of Alternate Energy Sources & Technologies [2230-7982(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open access journal launched in 2011 and seeks to promote and disseminate knowledge of the various topics and technologies of renewable energy/green energy/clean energy and therefore aims at assisting researchers, world agencies and societies to keep abreast of new developments in their specialist field and to unite in finding alternative energy solutions

• Solar Energy: Solar photovoltaic systems, solar thermal energy, concentrated solar power, solar heating and cooling, solar radiation, solar tracking, solar collectors, building-integrated photovoltaics, solar desalination, solar fuels, and emerging solar technologies.
• Photovoltaic Technologies: Crystalline silicon cells, thin-film photovoltaics, perovskite solar cells, tandem cells, organic photovoltaics, PV modules, MPPT, PV system modelling, degradation, efficiency improvement, and grid-connected PV systems.
• Wind Energy: Wind turbines, wind farms, wind-resource assessment, aerodynamic modelling, turbine control, offshore wind, wind forecasting, wind-power integration, hybrid wind systems, and turbine condition monitoring.
• Hydropower: Conventional hydropower, small and micro-hydropower, pumped storage, hydro-turbine systems, run-of-river plants, hydroelectric generation, reservoir management, and sustainable hydropower technologies.
• Tidal and Marine Energy: Tidal-stream systems, tidal barrages, tidal lagoons, wave energy, ocean-current energy, salinity-gradient energy, marine turbines, and ocean renewable-energy technologies.
• Bioenergy and Biomass: Biomass conversion, biogas, biofuels, bioethanol, biodiesel, waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, algae-based fuels, biochar, biomass gasification, and sustainable bioenergy systems.
• Hydrogen Energy: Green hydrogen, electrolysis, hydrogen production, storage, transport, hydrogen fuel cells, power-to-hydrogen, hydrogen blending, hydrogen infrastructure, and hydrogen economy studies.
• Fuel Cells: Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells, solid-oxide fuel cells, alkaline fuel cells, direct-methanol fuel cells, fuel-cell modelling, fuel processing, durability, and fuel-cell applications.
• Geothermal Energy: Geothermal reservoirs, ground-source heat pumps, enhanced geothermal systems, geothermal power generation, geothermal resource assessment, drilling technologies, and thermal-energy utilization.
• Waste-to-Energy Technologies: Municipal solid waste conversion, refuse-derived fuel, landfill gas, pyrolysis, gasification, incineration, anaerobic digestion, industrial waste-energy recovery, and circular-energy systems.
• Energy Storage Systems: Batteries, supercapacitors, thermal storage, pumped storage, compressed-air energy storage, flywheels, hydrogen storage, hybrid storage, and grid-scale energy-storage technologies.
• Battery Technologies: Lithium-ion, sodium-ion, solid-state batteries, flow batteries, battery-management systems, state-of-charge estimation, state-of-health estimation, degradation, recycling, and second-life applications.
• Thermal Energy Storage: Sensible heat, latent heat, phase-change materials, thermochemical storage, solar thermal storage, district thermal storage, and building energy-storage applications.
• Renewable Energy Integration: Grid-connected renewable systems, hybrid energy systems, distributed generation, microgrids, inverter-based resources, grid stability, renewable forecasting, and high-renewable penetration studies.
• Smart Grids and Microgrids: Smart-grid architecture, AC/DC microgrids, energy-management systems, demand response, distributed energy resources, virtual power plants, grid automation, and intelligent energy control.
• Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: Solar-wind systems, renewable-storage integration, hybrid microgrids, diesel-renewable systems, hydrogen-renewable integration, multi-source energy systems, and optimal hybrid configurations.
• Energy Management: Energy planning, energy conservation, demand-side management, energy audits, facility energy management, energy procurement, load management, cost optimization, and energy-efficiency strategies.
• Energy Efficiency: Building energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency, high-efficiency appliances, energy-saving technologies, efficiency benchmarking, energy-performance assessment, and conservation measures.
• Building Energy and Sustainable Architecture: Net-zero buildings, passive solar design, building-integrated renewables, HVAC efficiency, green buildings, building energy modelling, smart buildings, and low-energy architecture.
• Industrial Energy Systems: Waste-heat recovery, industrial electrification, process-energy optimization, cogeneration, combined heat and power, energy-intensive industries, and industrial decarbonization.
• Climate and Energy Systems: Climate impacts on renewable resources, climate-sensitive energy demand, greenhouse-gas mitigation, weather-energy interactions, climate resilience of energy infrastructure, and climate-energy modelling.
• Meteorology for Renewable Energy: Solar irradiance forecasting, wind forecasting, atmospheric conditions, weather prediction, climatology, extreme-weather impacts, and meteorological data for energy planning.
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Carbon mitigation, emissions reduction, carbon accounting, decarbonization pathways, carbon capture integration, lifecycle emissions, and net-zero energy strategies.
• Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: CO₂ capture technologies, carbon utilization, geological storage, industrial carbon management, negative-emission technologies, and integrated low-carbon energy systems.
• Energy Economics and Policy: Renewable-energy policy, tariffs, subsidies, carbon pricing, energy markets, investment analysis, techno-economic assessment, regulatory frameworks, and energy transition policies.
• Energy Finance and Investment: Green finance, renewable project finance, lifecycle cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, investment risk, levelized cost of energy, and sustainable-energy financing.
• Energy Systems Modelling and Optimization: Energy-system simulation, techno-economic modelling, optimization, scenario analysis, integrated energy planning, energy forecasting, and decision-support systems.
• Artificial Intelligence in Energy Systems: Machine learning for forecasting, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, load prediction, renewable resource assessment, fault diagnosis, and intelligent energy management.
• IoT and Digital Energy Systems: IoT-enabled energy monitoring, smart meters, remote asset monitoring, connected energy systems, digital substations, edge analytics, and smart energy platforms.
• Digital Twins for Energy Systems: Digital replicas of energy assets, predictive simulation, renewable-plant monitoring, virtual commissioning, performance optimization, and lifecycle asset management.
• Electric Mobility and Renewable Energy: EV charging, renewable-powered charging, vehicle-to-grid, battery integration, solar EV charging, electric mobility infrastructure, and clean transportation-energy systems.
• Rural and Decentralized Energy Systems: Mini-grids, off-grid systems, rural electrification, solar home systems, decentralized renewable technologies, community energy, and energy access.
• Sustainable Energy for Agriculture: Solar irrigation, renewable-powered cold storage, biomass energy, agricultural waste utilization, farm energy management, and clean-energy technologies for rural production.
• Desalination and Water-Energy Systems: Solar desalination, renewable-powered water treatment, water-energy nexus, low-energy desalination, clean-energy pumping, and sustainable water systems.
• Emerging Alternative Energy Technologies: Artificial photosynthesis, ocean thermal energy conversion, piezoelectric harvesting, thermoelectric energy, microbial fuel cells, osmotic power, airborne wind energy, and next-generation renewable concepts.