In accordance with the arrangement of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, starting from Issue 1 in 2026, Frontiers in Energy, the energy sub-journal of the official journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been officially renamed ENGINEERING Energy.

In Issue 1 of ENGINEERING Energy, Academician Huang Zhen, Editor-in-Chief of the journal and Founding Dean of the College of Smart Energy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, published an editorial entitled “The unprecedented transformation in energy: The Third Energy Revolution toward carbon neutrality”.

The paper discusses the evolution of energy revolutions in human history, the cornerstones of the Third Energy Revolution, as well as the new cognitive frameworks and new thinking required for the construction of a new energy system.

With the rapid advancement of industrialization,urbanization, and modernization, human demand for energy has continued to grow. However, the extensive use of traditional fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, has not only led to the depletion of resources but also triggered a series of severe environmental problems. In particular, the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases have caused global warming, resulting in the melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme weather events, which pose a significant threat to the earth’s ecosystem as well as to human survival and development. Against the backdrop of global climate change, the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UNFCCC, held in November 2023, reached the UAE Consensus. The Parties agreed on establishing a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, which has been described as “the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era”. To date, more than 150 countries around the world have announced plans to achieve net-zero emissions or carbon neutrality around 2050, and a profound and far-reaching third energy revolution is underway, marking an unprecedented epoch-making shift in the energy domain. This paper explores the historical development of energy revolutions, the cornerstones of the third energy revolution, and the new cognitive frameworks and innovative thinking required for the construction of a new energy system.

About ENGINEERING Energy

ENGINEERING Energy (formerly Frontiers in Energy) is the energy sub-journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) Series Journals, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Higher Education Press.

Academician Weng Shilie and Academician Ni Weidou serve as Honorary Editors-in-Chief. CAE Academicians Huang Zhen, Zhou Shouwei, Su Yinao and Peng Suping hold the position of Editors-in-Chief. Associate Editors-in-Chief include Academician Jiujun Zhang (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Foreign Member of the CAE), Professor Radenka Maric (President of the University of Connecticut, USA), as well as Professors Nicolas Alonso-Vante and Ju Yonglin from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

ENGINEERING Energy is indexed in numerous prestigious databases, including SCIE, Ei Compendex, CAS, Scopus, INSPEC, Google Scholar, CSCD (Chinese Science Citation Database) and the Chinese Core Journals of Science and Technology. It achieved an Impact Factor (IF) of 6.2 in 2024, ranking 55th out of 182 journals in the ENERGY & FUELS category of JCR and placing it in the JCR Q2 zone. The journal had a CiteScore of 6.9 in 2024, ranking 77th out of 299 publications in the Energy field. Its 2025 Immediate IF stands at 7.9 with an Immediate CiteScore of 9.0.

No page charges are levied by ENGINEERING Energy. Additionally, free language polishing is provided for all accepted manuscripts to ensure high publication quality, with the first round of peer review completed in approximately 30 days.

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