Climate change is intensifying the frequency, magnitude, and compound nature of climate hazards, placing increasing stress on electricity systems originally designed for stationary climatic conditions. These disruptions expose systemic vulnerabilities in centralized energy infrastructure and highlight the need for adaptive, decentralized solutions. Local Energy Communities (LECs), characterized by distributed generation, storage, and participatory governance, are emerging as climate-adaptation systems capable of maintaining energy-service continuity under dynamic environmental conditions. This study examines how LECs contribute to climate adaptation and energy-system resilience, the mechanisms that support this contribution, and how these vary across hazards and regions. A thematic narrative review of approximately 220 peer-reviewed and institutional sources published primarily between 2006 and 2025 was conducted using combined deductive and inductive coding, qualitative weight-of-evidence assessment, and the Anticipate–Absorb–Adapt–Recover (AAAR) framework. Findings indicate that resilience in LECs arises from the interaction between climate exposure, technological flexibility, and institutional capacity. Microgrids and hybrid storage systems enable localized buffering against variability, while digital control systems enhance real-time adaptation. Governance structures and financial mechanisms determine the extent to which these systems can be sustained and scaled under evolving climate risks. Despite these advances, critical gaps remain in the integration of climate projections into LEC design, standardized resilience metrics, and long-term performance evaluation under compound hazards. The review extends existing LEC and energy-resilience literature by integrating localized climate hazards, system vulnerabilities, technological and institutional responses, and recovery processes within the AAAR framework; comparing these mechanisms across regions and interconnected services; and identifying practical priorities for climate-informed design, inclusive governance, lifecycle financing, cross-sector coordination, and resilience monitoring.

Bangladesh, a developing nation experiencing significant population and industrial growth, confronts an increasing demand for electricity. This demand is further exacerbated by global climate change, prompting the search for low-carbon electricity generation technologies to mitigate environmental impacts. Among clean energy technologies, nuclear power emerges as a promising solution to lessening emissions. The comparative performance of nuclear power against renewable and conventional generation technologies in Bangladesh remains unexplored, making energy planning challenging. To overcome this issue, this study aims to evaluate the comprehensive feasibility of nuclear, renewable, and conventional electricity generation technologies in the context of Bangladesh. Six decision-making criteria, including technical, environmental, economic, policy, and institutional factors, strategic significance, and socio-economic factors, were primarily adopted, and later, these criteria were divided into 16 sub-criteria to make an evaluation using a multi-criteria approach. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to evaluate alternatives with respect to each criterion to synthesize global priorities. The findings reveal that, in terms of environmental superiority and social acceptance, renewable energy is the most preferred while nuclear power emerges as the best in terms of system reliability, base-load capacity, and geopolitical security. Traditional sources scored the lowest for sustainability and strategic horizon. Sensitivity analysis documents the stability of these rankings with respect to reasonable ranges of expert judgments. These results indicate that nuclear and renewable energy will be complementary to each other in the electric mix of Bangladesh. It can also help provide energy system stability and reduce greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions for environmental sustainability.

Renewable energy (RE) applications in agriculture, such as solar irrigation, agrivoltaics, floating solar, biogas systems, and rural microgrids, can enhance resilience, reduce emissions, and support rural livelihoods. However, agricultural and land governance policies designed to protect food production and tenure can constrain renewable deployment, creating trade-offs between food security and energy transition goals. This study integrates international lessons with a stakeholder-based assessment of six Philippine agriculture and land governance policies. Based on a structured survey of 36 experts from academia, industry, government, and civil society, results show that the Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy - Renewable Energy Program for the Agri-Fishery Sector and the 2021 Department of Agrarian Reform amendment on land conversion are perceived as enabling, while the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms, and the 2002 conversion rules are viewed as restrictive. The findings suggest that policies prioritizing agricultural land protection and exclusive land use may be less flexible for RE integration, while more adaptive and coordinated frameworks may better support dual-use systems and decentralized deployment. Divergent perceptions reflect competing priorities of food security, tenure protection, and investment feasibility. These findings also reveal significant heterogeneity across stakeholder groups, with government respondents generally supporting existing regulatory frameworks, while NGOs and other stakeholders emphasize the need for reform and greater flexibility. The paper identifies reform pathways for synergistic approach focused on recognizing agrivoltaics within agricultural zoning, streamlining permitting procedures, and linking solar irrigation to groundwater and equity safeguards to better align food, land, and energy policy.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is critically transforming the renewable energy sector. This review synthesizes AI's role in optimizing solar and wind energy systems, focusing on power forecasting, system optimization, and predictive maintenance. The research goal was to systematically analyze how diverse AI techniques enhance these critical aspects. Key findings indicate AI's capacity to substantially improve short-term solar irradiance and wind power forecasts (e.g., via SARIMAX, long short-term memory (LSTM), and hybrid deep learning models), dynamically manage energy flow in smart grids and microgrids, optimize maximum power point tracking (MPPT) in photovoltaic (PV) systems, and enable proactive maintenance through anomaly detection in wind turbines using IoT-integrated AI. Key conclusions reveal that AI significantly enhances the efficiency, reliability, and economic viability of solar photovoltaic and wind power generation, offering superior adaptability and predictive capabilities over traditional methods. While AI is important for the global transition to cleaner energy, persistent challenges related to data quality and availability, model interpretability, and cybersecurity must be addressed to fully unlock its potential in practical renewable energy applications.

Solar energy deployment increasingly competes with prime agricultural lands, creating conflicts between energy goals and food security. To resolve these competing demands, our study identified where agrivoltaic systems—combining solar energy and agricultural production on the same land—should be strategically deployed across the Philippines. Using geospatial analysis which integrates terrain suitability, solar photovoltaic (PV) potential, and crop compatibility with shade-tolerant crops, we identified 10.09 million has of cropland suitable for agrivoltaics, representing 81.8% of the nation's agricultural land. Regions in the Mindanao island emerged as premier agrivoltaic deployment zones, combining maximum crop compatibility (15 shade-tolerant crops), high solar PV potential (683-687 MW), and substantial suitable areas (587,000-715,000 has). These findings provide actionable recommendations for strategic agrivoltaic deployment that advances both food security and renewable energy goals in the Philippines simultaneously.