Cleaner Energy Systems

Cleaner Energy Systems - a platform to debate issues of delivering sufficient energy in a clean way. In this light, CLEANER energy is a significant issue as, for instance, renewable energy can be clean but can also contribute to the increased environmental footprints at various levels. Instead of focusing on a specific technology or the origin of the supplied energy, the proposed journal focuses on the issues of minimising the footprints of energy technologies over the entire life cycle - from sourcing to use and counteracting to the effects of released emissions.

Cleaner Energy Systems
An international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on cleaner ways of sourcing, transforming, transporting, delivering and using energy. Embedded in the scope is also the concept of Circular Economy - in terms of energy efficiency of systems with circular material flows as well as the energy recovery and reuse in industrial and processes within supply chains, urban and regional process networks. The Cleaner Energy Systems journal serves as a platform for addressing and discussing theoretical and practical issues concerning energy systems related to the reduction and elimination of negative impacts on the environment and human health, as well as the potential increase of natural and human capital.

The scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics, where the cleaner and sustainability dimensions are explicitly treated:

Sustainable energy use and consumption

Efficient and clean energy transportation and conversion

Energy efficiency of industrial and business processes

Nexuses of energy and other resources and their potential use as synergy mechanisms

Integration of renewable energy sources into product and energy supply systems

Energy storage enabling renewables and environmental footprint minimisation

Reduction of environmental and health footprints of transportation, product or energy supply networks

Energy-related metrics for sustainability performance and their relation to other sustainability indicators

Sustainable practices and footprint minimisation in upstream operations and primary energy sourcing

Energy- and footprint-aware regional development

Cleaner energy systems promoting policies

Promoting cleaner energy systems

We encourage those interested in organizing a special issue or a virtual special issue within the scope of the journal to fill out this form and contact the editors-in-chief for more information.