Editorial

"It is with great pleasure that we present to you our new multidisciplinary, international open access journal [Energy, Sustainability and Society]...published by Springer in cooperation with the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance [ESEIA] and principal investigators from the Helmholtz Association. This journal is intended to provide the necessary scientific exchange platform to support a broad, interdisciplinary discourse in the complex field of innovative energy systems and sustainable development indispensable in this time of challenge and change...."