Solar Energy Storage: Materials, Devices, Designs and Systems Level
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 1915
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solar rechargeable storage; solar cells; batteries (Li-ion, Li metal, solid-state, Na-ion); supercapacitors; microgrids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solar power or photovoltaics has been globally considered for promoting renewable energy to realize energy sustainability. However, solar power is intermittent in nature, thus requiring energy storage to be coupled with it.
On the other side, forms of energy storage such as batteries are energy-limited, making their recharge a requirement. Solar power can help to accomplish this recharging requirement. This makes the two systems (solar and energy storage) mutually dependent in nature.
However, the mass adoption of solar power/energy storage systems has been restrained by its high cost, especially for residential photovoltaics. This creates the need for a low-cost and efficient combination of solar and energy storage, new energy conversion technologies (solar, batteries, supercapacitors), and operation optimization of solar power storage at the system level.
For this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of relevant papers (communications, full research articles, review articles) on designs that implement solar energy storage focusing on device (materials, processes, device architectures and structures) and system level (microgrids), aiming at better performance and a lower cost.
We encourage the submission of papers exploring material, device, and system levels. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Solar/battery combination or architecture;
- Solar/supercapacitor combination or architecture;
- High-efficiency solar cells (silicon, thin films, perovskites, organic);
- High-energy and -power-density energy storage (batteries: lithium-ion, solid-state, beyond Li-ion; supercapacitors: EDLC, pseudo, hybrid; Li-ion capacitors);
- Solar storage and battery charging algorithms for performance optimization;
- System-level design, operation, and control of solar-storage for microgrid optimization.
Dr. Ashim Gurung
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Solar energy storage
- Solar power
- Solar charging
- Batteries
- Battery recharging
- Supercapacitors
- Microgrids
- Integrated solar storage devices
- Solar cells
- Silicon solar cells
- Thin film solar cells
- Perovskite solar cells
- Organic solar cells
- Li-ion batteries
- Li-metal batteries
- Solid-state batteries
- Beyond Li-ion batteries
- Redox flow batteries
- EDLC
- Pseudo-capacitors
- Charging algorithms
- Photovoltaic penetration
- Microgrid optimization
- Solar intermittency
- Solar forecasting
- Residential photovoltaics
- Virtual inertia
