Preface

Abstract

This is the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Development (ICRED 2021) which was held online during September 10-12, 2021, the event was ought to be held physically at Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan, in collaboration with University of Kurdistan, Iran. Considering the participants are inconvenient to travel to the conference venue due to Co-vid 19, the conference was managed with Zoom finally. It is indeed a great privilege for us to present the proceedings of ICRED2021, to the authors and delegates of the event. We hope you will find it educative and inspiring.The conference program is consisted of keynote lectures and oral presentations given by renowned scholars working in the areas of Renewable Energy and its Development from all over the world. It covered recent trends and progress made in the field of renewable energy and its development. Distinguished researchers from Japan and Australia were invited to deliver four 45-minute keynote lectures regarding the latest research discoveries in their respective areas of expertise. Also, parallel sessions’ authors made oral presentations and each presentation was confined in 15 minutes, following by question and answer. One excellent presenter will be chosen among them, depending on the technical merit, presentation file, language fluency, and application etc. for the best paper award.Authors shared the screen and attendees could discuss their work via online platform. Overall, the conference was held successfully through the platform. Our conference committee and authors were dedicated to support the success. Around 20 attendees join the conference, including authors and speakers, from Ecuador, China, South Africa, Japan, Lebanon, and Viet Nam.All accepted papers were subject to peer-review by conference committee and invited international reviewers. The papers were selected based on their quality and their relevance to the conference.I would like to express special gratitude to members of the conference committee and organizers of the conference. I would also like to thank the reviewers for their valuable time and advice which helped in improving the quality of the papers selected for presentation at the conference and for publication in the proceedings. Finally I want to thank the authors, the members of the organizing committee, the reviewers, the chairpersons, sponsors, and all other conference participants for their support of ICRED2021.Prof. Hassan BevraniUniversity of Kurdistan, IranJanuary 8, 2022