Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development

Abstract

As the contradiction between human development and environmental maintenance is increasingly prominent, sustainability has become a significantly important goal for future development. The renewable energy plays an essential role in the achievement of sustainable development, since it is relatively cleaner comparing with fossil fuels. The renewable energy has the advantages that it has fewer negative impacts on the environment than fossil fuels, so it is beneficial in improving the environment, increasing the diversity of fuels, ensuring stable energy supply, and promoting regional economic development. To improve the sustainability and development of renewable energy, countries worldwide set up goals and implemented relative regulations and policies. This keynote paper firstly introduced sustainable development; subsequently, summarized the roles of renewable energy on sustainable development; then, had an overview of the achievements on sustainable development and renewable energy; after this, investigated the barriers and in sighted; and concluded this paper. The results reveal that there is still a far way to go before all Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) will be finally achieved although many progresses of sustainability and renewable energy development in technological, economic, environmental and social aspects have been made during the past 20 years with the efforts of all countries.

Zr-doping stabilizes spinel LiMn2O4 as a low cost long cycle life cathode for lithium ion batteries

“…Energy storage technologies have to be much improved to meet the need of making full use of clean renewable energy in order to realize the goals of carbon neutral. [1,2] Lithiumion batteries (LIB) is one of the best choices for energy storage considering energy density and technology readiness level so far. [3,4] The cathode material is the critical factor limiting the performance of LIB.…”

Regional dependencies of interest in the “My Electricity” photovoltaic subsidy program in Poland

“…The continuous increase in energy demand and the prospect of the exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves significantly increase the trend of searching for new, ecological energy technologies. The interest in renewable energy sources is also related to caring for the environment and searching for long-term potential actions for sustainable development (Lin and Ren 2020;Østergaard et al 2020;Canales et al 2020). One of the important renewable energy technologies is photovoltaics (Allied Market Research 2019;Olczak et al 2020a).…”

Lithium Ion Batteries Operated at –100 °C

“…We have witnessed great success over the past three decades that the employment of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in portable devices such as laptop computers, cameras, smartphones, wearable electronic devices, electric tools, electric vehicles (EVs), and static energy storage stations. [1,2] We are still industrious to power many more devices in other emerging fields using LIBs. [1] As the core part of a powering system, a battery has to withstand very harsh conditions in some application scenarios.…”

“…[1,2] We are still industrious to power many more devices in other emerging fields using LIBs. [1] As the core part of a powering system, a battery has to withstand very harsh conditions in some application scenarios. [3][4][5][6] EVs may be exposed to −30 ∘ C in high latitude regions, and even down to −90 ∘ C (−89.2 ∘ C, Vostok Station, Antarctica, 1983) in the polar regions in winter.…”