IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
A joint publication of Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Power Electronics Society, Power & Energy Society, Photonics Society and the Society on Social Implications of Technology.
Impact Factor: 8.6
Technical Co-sponsors:
IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Scope:
The IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy is a journal aimed at disseminating results of research on sustainable energy systems that can be integrated into the power transmission and/or distribution grid. The journal publishes original research on design, implementation, grid-integration and control of sustainable energy technologies and systems. The Transactions also welcomes manuscripts on design, implementation and evaluation of power systems that are affected by sustainable energy systems and devices.
Paper Categories
Topics within the journal scope:
- Battery and storage
- Combined heat and power
- Electricity from Biomass
- Energy efficiency
- Fuel cells
- Geothermal
- Grid interaction of sustainable energy sources
- Hydroelectricity
- Hydrogen technology
- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
- Small hydro design and applications
- Solar photovoltaics
- Solar thermal electricity
- Tidal and wave energy
- Wind turbine generators
Examples of topics out-of-scope:
- Microgrid design, optimization, operation and control – not involving renewable energy generation characteristics
- Virtual power plant design, optimization, control not involving renewable energy plants
- Protection of renewable generation – except involving fault ride through
- Design, optimization and control of power converters without consideration of network
- Theory and principle of generation of power from stand-alone power generation, conversion or storage technologies without involving electric power network
- Renewable energy development and feasibility study project not involving new modeling and methodology of design optimization
- Sharing operating experience of sustainable and other community energy development projects without technical rigor and methodology
- Dynamics and condition monitoring of wave/wind/tidal turbine mechanical components
- Resource (wind, irradiance, tide, ocean current, etc.) assessment except forecasting for use in power grid operations.
Peer Review
The articles in this journal are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (https://pspb.ieee.org/images/files/files/opsmanual.pdf). Each published article was reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a double-anonymous peer review process, where the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. Articles will be screened for plagiarism before acceptance.
About resubmission of a rejected paper
Rejected papers should not be resubmitted without being substantially revised. After revision, rejected papers can be resubmitted no sooner than 3 months after the date of the rejection. A resubmitted paper will be treated as new submission and must adhere to the same page limit as any other newly submitted paper. If the paper is rejected for the second time, the paper cannot be resubmitted any more even if further modified. The authors must also indicate in the letter to the editor how the paper has been modified. Since the resubmitted paper is not treated as a revision, the authors should not include a separate document in which they address the comments of the reviewers. All modifications should be briefly stated in the letter to the editor. If the paper was rejected from one of the PES journals and the authors have revised the paper and resubmit it to another PES journal they must also indicate in the letter to the editor which journal the paper was submitted to originally and what was the reference number of the rejected paper.
Policy on papers published at PES financially sponsored conferences:
The Authors who have presented the paper(s) at the IEEE PES financially sponsored conference including PES General Meeting, PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (USA, Latin America, Europe, Asia), PES PowerTech and PES PowerAfrica are eligible to submit the extended version of their conference paper(s) to one of IEEE PES Transactions for consideration of publication. The extended paper requires at least 60% additional new material relative to the original conference paper and is subject to a regular review process of the respective PES Transactions. The original conference paper should be referenced in the extended journal paper and new contributions with respect to the conference paper clearly identified. The final decision for publication on the extended paper is made by the Editor-in-Chief of the respective journal.
Open Access
This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission.
The OA option, if selected, enables unrestricted public access to the article via IEEE Xplore. The OA option will be offered to the author at the time the manuscript is submitted. If selected, the OA discounted fee of $2,495 be paid before the article is published in the journal. If you have unusual circumstances about this, please contact the Editor-in-Chief. Any other applicable charges (such as the over-length page charge and/or charge for the use of color in the print format) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete but prior to the publication.
The traditional option, if selected, enables access to all qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required.
Open Access Article Processing Charges
US $2495 for articles submitted in 2024. APC US $2645 for articles submitted in 2025.
- IEEE Members receive a 5% discount
- IEEE Society Members receive a 20% discount
- Discounts cannot be combined
- Discounts do not apply to undergraduate and graduate students
- Information about IEEE’s Low and Lower-middle Income Country Program is available
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Table of Contents & Abstracts
Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2025
Volume 15, Number 4, October 2024
Volume 15, Number 3, July 2024
Volume 15, Number 2, April 2024
Volume 15, Number 1, January 2024
Volume 14, Number 3, July 2023
Volume 14, Number 2, April 2023
Volume 14, Number 1, January 2023
Volume 13 Number 4, October 2022
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Hua Geng, Tsinghua University, China
Past Editor-in-Chief:
Badrul Chowdhury, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Power Engineering Letters Editor-in-Chief:
Rabih A. Jabr, American University of Beirut
Editor-in-Chief at Large:
Nikos Hatziagyriou, National Technology University of Athens
Senior Editor:
CY Chung, University Saskatchewan, Canada
Prof. Nima Amjady, Federation University
Associate Editors:
Ossama Abdelkhalik, Iowa State University, USA
Ahmed Al Durra, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, UAE
Mohd Hasan Ali, University of Memphis, USA
Nima Amjady, Semnan University, Iran
Jose Antonino-Daviu, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Ahmed Awad, CanmetENERGY, Canada
Murali Baggu, National Renewable Energy, USA
Linquan Bai, UNC Charlotte, USA
Efstratios Batzelis, Imperial College, UK
Ricardo Bessa, INESC TEC, Portugal
Andrea Bonfiglio, University of Genoa, Italy
Florin Capitanescu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
C. Y. Chung, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Nicolaos Cutululis, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Suman Debnath, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Shahab Dehghan, Imperial College, UK
Tao Ding, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Liang Du, Temple University, USA
Sara Eftekharnejad, Syracuse University, USA
Ozan Erdinc, Yildiz Technical University Davutpasa Campus, Turkey
Xin Fang, National Renewable Energy Lab, USA
João Alberto Passos Filho, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Hua Geng, Tsinghua University, China
Arild Helseth, SINTEF Energy Research, Norway
Md Shakawat Hossan, Commonwealth Edison, USA
Jahangir Hossain, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Masoud Karimi Ghartemani, Mississippi State, USA
Yonghao Gui, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Yun-Su Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Bri-Mathias Hodge, NREL, USA
Peng Hou, European Innovation Center, China
Ahda Grilo-Pavani,Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil
Peng Li, Tianjin University, China
Zhigang Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Zhiyi Li, Zhejiang University, China
Jun Liang, Cardiff University, UK
Nian Liu, North China Electric Power University, China
Saeed Lotfifard, Washington State University, USA
Ning Lu, North Carolina State University, USA
Zhixin Miao, University of South Florida, USA
Masood Parvania, University of Utah, USA
Zakir Rather, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India
Zhouyang Ren, Chongqing University, China
John Ringwood, Maynooth University, Ireland
Tapan Saha, University of Queensland, Australia
Miadreza Shafie-khah, University of Vaasa, Finland
Akanksha Singh, NREL, USA
Mei Su, Central South University, USA
Bidyadhar Subudhi, Indian Institute of Technology-Goa, India
Wei Sun, University of Central Florida, USA
Reinaldo Tonkoski, South Dakota State University, USA
Rodrigo Daniel Trevizan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Gustavo Valverde, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Zhaoyu Wang, Iowa State University, USA
Xiaoyuan Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yongheng Yang, Zhejiang University, China
Zijun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bin Zhou, Hunan University, China
Haoran Zhao, Shandong University, China
Resources:
Reviewers Recognition
2024 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [PDF 100KB]
2023 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [PDF 173KB]
2021 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [PDF 90KB]
2020 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [DOCX 16KB]
2019 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [DOCX 13KB]
2018 Best Reviewers Sustainable Energy [DOCX 14KB]
Associate Editor Recognition
2024Outstanding Associate Editors [PDF 68KB]
2023 Outstanding Associate Editors [PDF 70KB]
2022Outstanding Associate Editors [PDF 101KB]
2021Outstanding Associate Editors [PDF 66KB]
Recent Improvements
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Over-length Page Charges
Transactions papers are limited to 10 pages at submission. Papers exceeding 10 pages will be returned without review. Revised papers submitted in response to Revise and Resubmit decisions may exceed 10 pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2024 or later the over-length page charges are $250 per each page in excess of the first 12 published pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2023 – 21 December, 2023 the over-length page charges are $200 per each page in excess of the first 10 published pages. Papers submitted prior to 2023 will have over-length page charges of $150 per page for anything in excess of the first 8 published pages.
Useful Links
Preparation and Submission of Transactions Papers
Templates and Sample of PES Technical Papers
Manuscript Submission Site for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
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