Advances in energy efficiency for carbon emissions neutrality

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The surge in demand for energy, more specifically renewable energy, has come to the forefront in the wake of recent global challenges such as post pandemic and Russo-Ukraine War. Energy efficiency has consistently recognised as a key pathway to tackling the increasing energy demand. In alignment with the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario (a normative IEA scenario), there is a pressing need for significantly heightened efforts to rapidly enhance the energy efficiency of existing networks and transition them to renewable sources. However, the abundance and variety of available efficiency options have contributed to a lack of clarity regarding their collective impacts. Guided by the carbon emission neutrality goal, it is necessary to actively promote the energy efficiency of the entire systems of resource extraction, product manufacturing, commodity circulation, product consumption and waste product recycling. A substantial part of this is to emphasise energy saving, followed by vigorously developing renewable energy supply and utilisation – including efficient energy conversion, feasible hybrid energy system, carbon emissions mitigation, environmental footprint reduction and cleaner production. These will be the main topics of the proposed Virtual Special Issue, which will select the best contributions from the conferences PRES'23 (https://ysquared.eu/pres23/), SPIL’23 (https://conferencespil.com/spil-2023/) and ICLCA’23.

2025-08-01

Elsevier

OXFORD

Energy

328

August

136650-1–136650-2

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