Conference History

The 8th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems (NEFES 2023)
Nov. 21st-24th, 2023, Matsue, Japan
NEFES 2023 was held successfully onsite in Matsue and Online via MS Teams from November 21st-24th, 2023. About 50 delegates from 20 countries joined the conference with 2 keynote speeches, 31 oral presentations and 5 poser presentations delivered. Three best oral presenters and one best poster presenter were elected to be waivered off the registration fee for NEFES 2024 to encourage further academic efforts and enthusiasm.

The 7th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems (NEFES 2022)
Oct. 25th-28th, 2022 | Online Conference (Microsoft Teams)
Considering the health and safety of all our participants, pervasive travel restrictions as well as most author’s appeals, NEFES 2022 was converted into a full online conference via MS TEAMS. About 80 participants from 21 countries attended the conference. There were 4 keynote speeches, 47 oral presentations and 19 poster presentations. 34 papers were selected and accepted for the conference proceedings “Advances in Energy Research and Development”, published by IOS Press.

The 6th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems (NEFES 2021)
Nov. 1st-4th, 2021 | Online Conference (Microsoft Teams)
Because of COVID-19, most participants were not able to leave for Xi’an to attend the conference, NEFES 2021 was changed to an online conference finally. It has attracted around 100 participants from 24 countries. 5 keynote speeches and 60 oral presentations in 4 sessions were delivered virtually with fruitful results in energy related areas. 25 posters were displayed on the conference website with Q&A section.

The 5th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems (NEFES 2020)
Nov. 3rd-6th, 2020 | Online Conference (Microsoft Teams)
Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19, NEFES 2020 was changed as an online conference. One hundred and nine participants including presenters and listeners from a broad geographical coverage of counties including China, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Romania, Indonesia, Iraq, Poland, Japan, Mexico, India, Russia, Germany and Iran joined NEFES2020 and made it a successful conference. One Best Oral Presenter and one Best Poster Presenter were selected and awarded. 85 papers were included in the conference proceedings published by IOP Publisher.

The 4th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System (NEFES 2019)
July 21st-24th, 2019, Macao, China
Owing to consistent effort, the 4th conference got mature in 2019. Organized by Macao University of Science and Technology, it attracted more than 100 scholars and entrepreneurs from all over the world. The participants gave inspiring presentations. 8 Best Oral Presenters and 3 Best Poster Presenters were selected and awarded. There were 131 papers indexed by EI and 20 papers published to SCI journals.

The 3rd International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System (NEFES 2018)
Aug. 21st-24th, 2018, Shanghai, China
The participants came from more than 100 universities and institutions. There were more than 130 papers published to the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES) and SCI journals. 6 Best Oral Presenters were selected by the participants and awarded by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann-Josef Wagner. As an encouragement, the 6 winners could attend the next conference free of registration fee.

The 2nd International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System (NEFES 2017)
Sept. 22nd-25th, 2017, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Organized by the Yunnan Normal University, the conference attracted much more participants from more than 20 countries. Prof. Dapeng Yu from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruzhu Wang from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Prof. Shijie Liu from the State University of New York and Prof. Soteris Kalogirou, the Editor-in-Chief of the SCI journal Renewable Energy, came to the conference and gave keynote speeches.

The 1st International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System (NEFES 2016)
Aug. 19th-22nd, 2016, Beijing, China
The International Association for Hydrogen Energy gave a great support to the 1st NEFES conference. The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy, Prof. Shijie Liu, attended the conference as a keynote speaker. It has built a solid foundation and also got a good start for the later conferences.