Advances in Energy Nexus Engineering (AENE) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to scientific research, engineering innovation, and technological development in energy systems and interdisciplinary energy engineering. AENE covers energy conversion and thermal systems, renewable and sustainable energy, energy efficiency and management, energy storage, hydrogen and fuel cells, smart and hybrid energy systems, energy modelling and optimization, artificial intelligence for energy applications, sustainable transportation and electric vehicles, biomass and waste-to-energy, geothermal energy, energy–environment interactions, decarbonization, and emerging low-carbon energy technologies. The journal particularly welcomes interdisciplinary and system-level research integrating engineering innovation, digitalization, sustainability, and optimization to support the development of efficient, reliable, resilient, and low-carbon energy systems for a sustainable future.