Call for Papers------- Special Section on Renewable Energy Research and Applications inConjunction with ICRERA2024 Nagasaki------42B

The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section onRenewable Energy Research and Applications " in the January 2026 issue.
Currently, Japan is facing many challenges such as a major transition to green energy, the revitalization of thesemiconductor industry, and a shift from gasoline-powered cars to EVs, making it essential to introduce renewable energy into
the information and communications field. Development of digital technology to support these issues is also desired. Becauseof such reasons, we are planning to create a special feature to further promote research and development on future informationand communication energy technologies. In November 2024, an international conference on renewable energy research andapplications (ICRERA2024) will be held in Nagasaki, Japan. Many related issues are discussed there. For these reasons, aspecial section is planned to promote further research and development of future renewable energy fields. This submission isnot limited to ICRERA 2024 and we expect active submissions in the same field.

1. Scope
This special section aims at timely dissemination of research in these areas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-Renewable (Green) Energy Systems and Sources (RESSs) as Wind Power, Hydropower, Solar Energy, Biomass, Biofuel,Geothermal Energy, Wave Energy, Tidal energy, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Energy Storage-Energy Transformation from Renewable Energy System (RES) to Grid
-Novel Energy Conversion Studies for RESs
-Power Devices and Driving Circuits for RESs
-Control Techniques for RESs
-Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Studies for RESs and Applications-Energy Savings for Power Electronics, Vehicular Technology, Electric Machinery and Control, etc.
-Smart grids and RESSs-Renewable Energy Systems in Smart Cities-IoT for RESSs-Energy Management, VPP(Virtual Power Plant) and ERAB (Energy Resource Aggregation Businesses) for RESSs-Model based Design and Digital Twin for RESSs
2. Submission Instructions
The standard number of pages is 8. The page charges are considerably higher for extra pages. Manuscripts should be preparedaccording to the guideline in the "Information for Authors." The latest version is available at the web site,
https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html. The term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional
acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for regular issues (60 days) because of the tight review schedule.
This special section will accept papers only by electronic submission. Submit a manuscript and electronic source files(LaTeX/Wordfiles,figures,authors’photosandbiographies)
via
theIEICE
Web
site
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https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx by February 28, 2025 (JST). Authors should choose the Special Sectionon Renewable Energy Research and Applications as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular EB].

Contact point:
Yu Yonezawa
Nagoya University
Tel: +81-52-789-4505, E-mail: yonezawa.yu.c9@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp
3. Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Fujio Kurokawa (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science)
Guest Editors: Yu Yonezawa (Nagoya University)
Guest Associate Editors: Tadatoshi Babasaki (NTT-US), Yohei Yamada (Yamaguchi University),
Kimihiro Nishijima (Sojo University), Tetsuro Tanaka (Kagoshima University),
Yudai Furukawa (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science), Yoshiyasu Nakajima (NTT DevIces Cross Technologies)* Authors must agree to the "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement" via electronic submission.
* Upon accepted for publication, all authors, including authors of invited papers, should pay the page charges covering the partial
cost of publication around June 2025. If payment is not completed by 15 July 2025, your manuscript will be handled as rejection.
For detailed information on article processing charges, please visit https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/page2_cs.html#5* Accepted papers will be published online on the publishing websites (IEEE Xplore) immediately after the payment. For detailed
information, please visit https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/page2_cs.html#8* All papers published in or after the February 2024 issue of the IEICE Transactions on Communications are opened to all readers
worldwide through IEEE Xplore; visit https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10400553