The journal Scope/ themes are:
- Direct and indirect solar energy technologies
- Solar energy national and international plans and programs
- Solar energy polices
- Solar energy environmental and social impacts
- Solar energy economics
- Solar energy resource assessment
- Design and sizing of solar energy systems
- Solar energy system integration in buildings
- Solar and low energy architecture
- Solar energy storage
- Distributed generation of solar energy
- Modeling and simulation of solar energy systems
- National and international standards of solar energy systems
- Solar energy systems testing and evaluation
- Energy conservation and energy efficiency
- Energy management
- Water desalination using solar energy
- Solar energy and the environment
- Hydrogen energy production, storage, transportation and use.
- Fuel cell technologies and use in power generation, transportation, ...
- JSESD also, welcomes papers on other related topics as long as topics are within the context of the broader multi-disciplinary scope of the journal.