The concepts of Energy Transition and Environmental Protection have entered our homes overwhelmingly; young people discuss these concepts with each other and with adults, with growing determination and conviction. All we, youngs and adults, are looking for our own contribution to the current global process about energy and climate. Cooperation and mutual help underlie theongoing debate even when they are not explicitly mentioned. And there is a question here, increasingly recurrent: "How can I exchange energy with my neighbor, in my community, in my city?".

This special issue aims to answer this question.

To this end, contributions about energy management for the exchange of energy between users (consumers, prosumers, prosumages) in Smart Cities are welcome; the contributions show original and new research results, from both academia and industrial R&D departments.

Contributions addressing up-to-date reviews and reports of latest national or trans-national projects are also welcome.

The main topics include but are not limited to:

• renewable energy communities – RECs
• renewables energy sources – RESs
• storage systems for RECs and RESs at residential/utility levels
• regulatories and policies for RECs, RESs and storage systems
• energy and bussiness models
• enabling technologies, smart metering, smart charging
• social involvement and surveies
• behavioural profiling
• best practies

Dr. Alessandro Burgio
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Smart Cities is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• renewable energy communities
• renewable energy sources
• distributed storage systems
• energy sharing