What is this collection about?

Sustainable energy solutions can help address energy, development and environmental challenges in low-resource and underserved contexts. Yet moving technologies and approaches from concept to implementation often involves political, environmental, social, technical, economic, and legal barriers.

In this Collection, Communications Sustainability welcomes research on on sustainable energy solutions at the technology and system levels, including renewable energy, clean fuels, energy storage, distributed energy systems, electric mobility, sector coupling technologies, resource recovery, energy infrastructure, and innovative energy delivery models, with particular relevance to low-resource and underserved contexts.

We welcome studies spanning technology development, performance, scalability, and deployment.

Why is this collection important?

This is a single-journal collection on Communications Sustainability. Authors are welcome to submit to any of the participating journals. All manuscripts published in the collection are hosted on a dedicated nature portfolio portal, giving articles high visibility beyond the journal they are published in.

Why submit to a collection?

Collections like this one help promote high-quality science. They are led by In-House Editors who are experts in their fields and supported by a dedicated team of Commissioning Editors and Managing Editors at Springer Nature. Collection manuscripts typically see higher citations, downloads, and Altmetric scores, and provide a one-stop-shop on a cutting-edge topic of interest.

Who is involved?

Communications Sustainability is edited by both in-house professional editors and Editorial Board Members. 

Guest editor for Communications Sustainability

Charafeddine Mokhtara, PhD, Université d'Echahid Hamma Lakhdar - El-oued, Algeria

Dr Charafeddine Mokhtara, PhD in energy, currently is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of El Oued, Algeria. Before joining the University of El Oued, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University in Sweden, where he worked on a research project on climate change adaptation for Swedish detached houses. His research interests include energy management and planning for sustainable energy transitions and climate-related risk adaptation and mitigation in cities, with a focus on the development of open energy models using open data for optimising rural and urban energy systems.

Zhao Xu, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Dr. Zhao Xu received B.Eng. from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1996, M.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore in 2002, and Ph.D. from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2006, all in electrical engineering. From 2006 to 2010, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor with Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Since 2010, he has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is currently a Professor and the Leader of Smart Grid research area. He is also a foreign Associate Staff of the Centre for Electric Technology, Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include smart grid, grid integration of renewable energy, Optimal operation and planning of integrated energy system and applications of AI and big data analytics.

How can I submit my paper?

• Visit the Collection page to find out more about this collection and submit your article.