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Prof. Ahmed F. Zobaa
Email: azobaa@ieee.org
Affiliation: Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, Brunel University of London, Uxbridge, UB83PH, United Kingdom
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Research Interests: power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency
Dr. Ahmed M. Zobaa
Email: a.m.zobaa@cu.edu.eg
Affiliation: Electrical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt
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Research Interests: photovoltaics MPPT, renewable energy integration, hosting capacity enhancement, power quality, power system optimization, EV coordinated charging and V2G
Dr. A. Elsawy Khalil
Email: elaswy2020@eng.cu.edu.eg
Affiliation: Electrical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt
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Research Interests: advanced control strategies development,distributed energy resources, energy management, integrating renewable energy systems, microgrids operational control, power system stability and control
Summary
This Special Issue proposal for Energy Engineering focuses on advancing photovoltaic (PV) technologies and their integration into sustainable power systems. It highlights the rapidly expanding role of photovoltaics in global energy transitions and emphasises recent progress in materials science, device engineering, manufacturing, and AI-assisted optimisation. While technological improvements have boosted efficiency, stability, and scalability, key challenges remain in enhancing reliability, lowering costs, and ensuring seamless interaction with modern power grids.
The Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge research spanning fundamental material innovations, advanced cell architectures, module reliability, and system-level optimisation. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
· Fundamental material innovations for PV
· Advanced cell architectures
· Module reliability and durability
· System-level optimisation of PV systems
· Perovskite stability
· Next-generation silicon solar cell technologies
· Emerging PV materials (e.g., organic, dye-sensitized, quantum dot)
· Tandem solar cell designs
· Optical enhancement strategies
· Scalable and sustainable manufacturing processes
· Degradation analysis and failure mechanisms
· Sustainability and recycling of PV materials and modules
· Field performance evaluation and long-term testing
· Grid integration of large-scale PV power
· Hybrid systems (e.g., PV-wind, PV-hydro)
· Energy storage solutions for PV applications
· Intelligent control and management of PV systems
· Solar power and load forecasting
· Metaheuristic optimisation for PV system design and operation
· Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in PV
· Digital twins for PV system monitoring and diagnostics
· Computational modelling of PV devices and materials
· Techno-economic assessment (TEA) and life-cycle analysis (LCA) of PV technologies
Keywords
photovoltaics, solar energy, perovskite solar cells, silicon heterojunction, tandem solar cells, emerging pv materials, module reliability, degradation mechanisms, sustainable manufacturing, circular economy, grid integration, hybrid renewable systems, energy storage, power quality, intelligent control, forecasting, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, computational modelling, techno-economic analysis, renewable energy systems
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