Abstract

This paper is the editorial of the virtual special issue of e-Prime – Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy present dedicated to the 2024 conference series on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environmental Systems (SDEWES). Particularly, this special issue comprehends the outcomes of 3 different conferences within the SDEWES conference series held in 2024 that are the 19th SDEWES Conference held in Rome, Italy, the 4th Latin American SDEWES conference in Viña del Mar, Chile and the 2nd Asia Pacific SDEWES conference held in Gold Coast, Australia. These events counted >750 scientific papers presented orally either on-site or online and >90 posters from a total of 1110 participants. After a careful selection, authors were invited to submit an extended version of their work to e-PRIME and undergo the traditional editorial process leading to publishing 5 papers in this special issue. Novel sustainable solutions are analysed and discussed in this editorial and more in detail in each of the published articles.