Abstract This short editorial provides a summary of the Special Section on Renewable Energy Conversion and Energy Storage Systems, published across the 2024–2025 issues of Power Electronics and Drives. The Section gathers ten research contributions addressing key challenges related to renewable energy integration, including maximum power point tracking, photovoltaic (PV) model optimisation, converter design and hybrid energy management strategies. Collectively, these works highlight significant progress in improving the efficiency, stability and reliability of renewable energy conversion and storage technologies.
Bizhani et al. (2025) studied this question.