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The reputation of our SMTP servers has been severely damaged due to a large number of spam user registrations using fake email addresses. Therefore, most emails cannot receive emails sent directly from the website. The site administrator will review new accounts and activate your account manually. However, the registration process will be delayed. Therefore, new authors are kindly requested to submit manuscripts directly to the editor's emails: thefutureenergyorg@gmail.com and bzhang@futureenergysp.com.

Due to the large number of spam user registrations, the Captcha for new user registration has been changed to a more challenging verification, and validation of email address is also required. New users need to click the activation link sent to the user's email address. However, some email address hosting providers (such as Yahoo) are not compatible with our SMTP. The webmaster will review new accounts daily and manually activate your account. At the same time, the author can send a registration request or directly submit the manuscript to the editor's email: bzhang@futureenergysp.com.

A recent submission "Application of Geographic Information System to select Dam Location for Hydropower" has been identified as a simultaneous submission, which has been published by another publisher at http://www.conscientiabeam.com/journal/13/abstract/6032. Due to this unethical academic behavior, we regret to inform the authors that this manuscript has been rejected for publication.

The 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA2018) is organized by Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India and will be held on December 21-23, 2018. The organizing committee will invite the extended versions of presented/selected papers to submit to Trends in Renewable Energy for publishing in a special issue. The guest editors for this specical issue are:
Dr. Afzal Sikander, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar, India
Dr. Om Prakash Verma, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar, India
Dr. Millie Pant, IIT Roorkee

We officially signed the data sharing agreement with Informatics (J-Gate) and CNKI Scholar. Up to date, the abstracts of published papers in Trends in Renewable Energy can be found in following searchable academic databases: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), CNKI, CrossRef, J-Gate(Informatics), OALib, SciLit, and Worldcat. Meanwhile, search engines of Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic might be used to discover papers published in our journal and track the citation number. 

Website maintenance completed. Now the journal utilizes the PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Issues published between 2015 and 2019 have been deposited into PKP PLN. More stories behind the journal...

The 2016 TRE Author of the Year Award goes to Dr. Athanasios G. Lazaropoulos.

The 2016 TRE Paper of the Year goes to “A Review of Hydrothermal Carbonization of Carbohydrates for Carbon Spheres Preparation” (DOI: 10.17737/tre.2015.1.1.009). 

Trends in Renewable Energy will enter its third year and remain free-of-charge to authors. I’ll submit our journal to the SCI and EI/compendex index for their review. The evaluation will last approximately 1.5 years. To pass the evaluation, the number and quality of publications are highly dependent on contributions from the editorial team. I’ll start to solicit manuscripts from our editorial board members very soon. In addition, the publication frequency of the journal is reduced to be semi-annual to ensure that each issue has enough papers. 

Trends in Renewable Energy (ISSN: 2376-2136, online ISSN: 2376-2144) received the green light from U.S. Library of Congress. The first two volumes (2015-2016) are free of any charge to authors. 

The aim of this journal is to provide a communication platform that is run exclusively by scientists working in the renewable energy field.