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Decarbonization and the future of energy storage systems

Guest Editors

Neven Duić, PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia
Henrik Lund, MSc Eng, PhD, Dr Techn, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark

 called for submissions to our Collection on the role of energy storage systems in advancing the global decarbonization agenda, offering insights, innovations, and solutions to catalyze a sustainable and clean energy future.


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Meet the Guest Editors

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Neven Duić, PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Croatia

Prof Dr Sc Neven Duić, full professor at University of Zagreb, has published more than 185 papers in journals referenced in SCI. He is vice-president of the Croatian Academy of Engineering. He is editor of Energy Conversion Management journal, subject editor of journal Energy and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – JSDEWES. Currently, Dr Duić organizes the SDEWES conference series. He was coordinator of over 40 international research projects and has been recognized recently as one of top 2% cited scientists, by research team at Stanford. His main areas of interests are energy policy and planning, energy economics, sustainable development policy and resource planning, climate change mitigation, and combustion engineering.

Henrik Lund, MSc Eng, PhD, Dr Techn, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark

Henrik Lund is a Danish engineer (MSc Eng 1985) and Professor in Energy Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He holds a PhD in Implementation of Sustainable Energy Systems (1990), and a Dr Techn in Choice Awareness and Renewable Energy Systems (2009). He is a highly ranked world-leading researcher. He is listed among ISI Highly Cited researchers ranking him among the top 1% researchers in the world within engineering and on the Stanford list of top 2% scientists. Dr Lund is the author of more than 500 books and articles and the architect behind the advanced energy system analysis software EnergyPLAN.

About the Collection

 is calling for submissions to our Collection on the role of energy storage systems in advancing the global decarbonization agenda, offering insights, innovations, and solutions to catalyze a sustainable and clean energy future.

About three-quarters of green-house gas emissions are currently produced by the energy sector, which is still mostly reliant on burning fossil fuels. Replacing coal, gas and oil-fired energy production with alternative energy sources will therefore be key in reaching the net zero target in 2050. Moreover, the energy sector will also have to provide carbon sinks for parts of the other sectors.

Advancements in new energy storage systems play a pivotal role in enabling this transition by ensuring the reliability, stability, and efficiency of renewable energy integration.

Some of the biggest challenges we are currently facing in transitioning to alternative energy sources are the intermittency of power sources like wind and sun, as well as their reliable integration into a fully sector integrated smart energy system. Developing cost-effective and efficient energy storage technologies that can store large amounts of excess energy is therefore crucial for overcoming the periodic nature of renewables.  

Recent innovations have helped accelerate the technology behind a sustainable energy future. For instance, breakthroughs in battery technology, including solid-state batteries and advanced lithium-ion designs, have been extending energy storage capacities and lifespans while reducing costs, making electric vehicles and their integration with renewable energy more efficient. Cross-sectoral integration between the power sector and the heating and cooling as well as the transport and industrial sectors using power-to-heat and power-to-X provides for cost-efficient solutions to the integration of renewable energy by use of various thermal, hydrogen, methane, and liquid green fuels storages. Smart grid technologies and demand response systems, enhanced by artificial intelligence and data analytics, are optimizing energy consumption and grid management, facilitating a cleaner, more reliable energy transition. 

We invite researchers from energy science and engineering, environmental studies, materials science, policy analysis, economics, and related disciplines to submit their original research related to decarbonization, including, but not limited to:  

  • Advanced energy storage technologies and materials
  • Integration of energy storage with smart renewable energy systems
  • Energy storage applications in transportation and resilience
  • Sustainability and life-cycle analysis of energy storage systems
  • Energy storage policies, regulations, and market dynamics
  • Techno-economic analysis and modeling of energy storage projects
  • Storage use in the carbon management of fully decarbonized societies


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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our  to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, . During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Decarbonization and the future of energy storage system" from the dropdown menu.

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The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.