Green Energy and Sustainability ISSN 2771-1641

Special Issue

Selected Papers from the Conference ICRES 2025

Manuscript Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025 Submit Now

Guest Editors
  • Georgia Kastrinaki
    Georgia Kastrinaki

    ARTEMIS Laboratory/Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  • Hande Eryilmaz
    Hande Eryilmaz

    Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Technologies (ODAK)- ODTÜ-GÜNAM (Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications), Ankara, Turkiye

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  • Martin Roeb
    Martin Roeb

    Institute of Solar Research, German Aerospace Center DLR, Koeln, Germany

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  • Georgios Martinopoulos
    Georgios Martinopoulos

    Merchant Marine Academy of Macedonia, Néa Michanióna, GR 57004, Greece

    Research Interests: Solar Energy Conversion; Building Integrated RES; Energy Efficiency

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Introduction
The Institute of Solar Technology (IHT), a scientific organization based in Thessaloniki, recognizing in time the important role of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and the Rational Use of Energy in the energy balance of Greece, organized in 1982 the "1st National Conference on Renewable Energy Sources", with the aim of providing researchers active in RES, a platform for a fruitful exchange of views and ideas and for supporting cooperation perspectives at national and international level. This initiative was met with enthusiastic support from the outset. Over the past 42 years, the Institute has built a legacy of hosting thirteen successful national events while fostering numerous fruitful collaborations within the scope of its broad thematic focus on the Greek region.
The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas was founded in March 2000, it is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Greek Ministry of Development. CERTH suggests one of the most important Research Centers in Greece with a main mission: The promotion of innovative research for the benefit of society. Dedicated to this purpose, CERTH lies at the forefront of basic, applied and technological research to provide solutions to society’s modern challenges. Clean energy, low/zero CO2 emission technologies, clean vehicle technologies, green hydrogen, climate change, artificial intelligence, advanced robotic systems, the internet of things, Industry 4.0, smart home infrastructure for the future, precision medicine, holistic health nutrition, holistic health-nutrition approach, autonomous vehicles, driving simulators, traffic control hubs, smart cities, precision agriculture, agro-robotics and circular economy, are the primal fields around which CERTH’s five (5) institutes are organized.
SolarHub is a perfect blend of Quadruple Helix collaboration in practice to create an Excellence Hub. SolarHub a four-year project with 21 partners from Greece, Türkiye, Germany, Ireland and Belgium, links academia, businesses, governments, and civil societies to support the development of PV, non-concentrated and concentrated solar technology solutions. Technology development is also harnessed with commercialization, market and policy solutions for sustainable technology adoption. The project is funded under the Horizon Europe WIDERA Excellence Hub program and the consortium came to effect in January 2023, under Grant Agreement No 101086110. The project aims to interconnect and scale-up five solar energy innovation ecosystems located in Thessaloniki, Athens, İzmir, İstanbul and Ankara standing by a mantra of accelerating the Clean Energy Transition and the Green Deal initiative.
The three partners organised the first Conference on Renewable Energy Systems with a focus on Solar Technologies under the auspices of the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on 09-11 April 2025 in THESSALONIKI, Greece.
The Special Issue aims at highlighting the current research and implementation aspects, towards the broader dissemination of RES, including works applying experimental and simulation analysis.
More specifically, the thematic areas of interest are:
  • Solar Thermal Power and Heat
  • Innovative components & systems for low temperature (≤ 120°C) solar heat
  • Medium and high temperature (solar) thermochemical processes & components
  • Innovative Applications of PV technologies
  • Innovative components & systems for agrivoltaics
  • Solar Heating and Cooling – components and systems
  • Hybrid PV/solar thermal
  • Renewable Energy Technologies (wind, biomass, geothermal)
  • Applications of Renewable Energy Technologies
Manuscript Submission Information

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor been under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blinded peer-review process. A guide for manuscript submission is available at Submission Instructions.

Published Papers
Original Research

Boron Carbon Oxynitride (BCNO) as novel luminescent solar concentrator in greenhouse applications

Eirini Pitsika, Sofia A. Barla, George Salachas, Evangelos Giannakopoulos, Charis Stefanou, Theodosia Andrikopoulou, Elias Stathatos

Green Energy and Sustainability  https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2606010002

Received: Oct 3, 2025 | Accepted: Jan 27, 2026 | Published: Feb 12, 2026
Original Research

Design and performance investigation of a solar photovoltaic installation on a university building

Evangelos Vidalis, Evangelos Bellos, Christos Sammoutos, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Panagiotis Lykas, Dimitrios N. Korres, Dimitra Gonidaki, Christos Tzivanidis

Green Energy and Sustainability  https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2505040010

Received: Aug 7, 2025 | Accepted: Nov 14, 2025 | Published: Nov 21, 2025
Original Research

Optimizing the performance of a novel compact integrated thermal storage system (MiniStor) under diverse climate conditions

Alexandros Tsimpoukis, Georgios Martinopoulos, Nikolaos Nikolopoulos

Green Energy and Sustainability  https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2505040009

Received: Jul 3, 2025 | Accepted: Oct 3, 2025 | Published: Oct 13, 2025
Original Research

Leveraging TRNSYS simulations of a single family house in Spain for renewable energy integration

George Dogkas, Alexandros Tsimpoukis, Milen Pérez Cammañ, Jesús Samaniego Muñoz, Juan Carlos del Castillo Garcia, Ola Gustafsson, Grigorios Itskos, Nikolaos Nikolopoulos

Green Energy and Sustainability  https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2505040008

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