Innovative Applications of Mechatronics in Advancing Sustainable Energy Solutions

Energy is crucial for socio-economic development, and energy scarcity is a significant issue due to the depletion of fossil fuels, population growth, globalization, environmental pollution, and global warming. Renewable energy is a new frontier for academia and research. Approximately 40% of the world’s population lacks regular access to electricity, mainly in less developed countries. This number is expected to double by 2050. Green energy technologies, such as solar, wind, geothermal, small-scale hydropower, and biomass, offer environmentally friendly, renewable, and low-polluting solutions. These technologies can generate hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and play a significant role in future policy schemes like cap and trade or carbon taxes. Green energy technologies will be a major socio-economic force in the future[1]. Mechatronics is a new field that combines electrical, mechanical, electronics, and information technology. It consists of mechanical, control, electronic, and computer systems components, typically using motors for workloads. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are intelligent networks connected over the internet, providing data and information to the environment.