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 these 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, 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
Guest editorial for the special issue on progress in energy storage systems
