Special Section on Degradation Prediction and Recycling of Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems: Scenarios of 2020–2025

Abstract

Given the degrading environment, countries across the globe have strongly emphasized the development and deployment of renewable energy and energy storage systems across various sectors such as residential, commercial, industry, rural households, charging stations, etc. Given with this pace of deployment, there will be unforeseen problems in next decade on how to diagnose, perform online monitoring and regular maintenance, and recycle millions of these renewable energy and energy storage systems whose life span is over (spent systems). Main challenges that exist includes the heterogeneity of the systems (different standards, size, and shape) adding complexity to recycling procedures, laboratory-based models having assumptions for online prediction and monitoring, and non-uniform reusability and recycling procedures. Due to this, the process adopted for recycling and reusability of the spent systems is mainly manual. There is a strong need for designing and developing the automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and robust optimization procedures for making these recycling and reusability procedures smart and efficient.