This conference aims to promote communication and dialogue among researchers, scientists, academics, and engineers working in the areas of energy and environmental engineering, focusing on research concerning technology, development, assessment and management of energy and environmental engineering related programs. The abstracts and the full papers will be published in the E-book Proceedings of the conference, and the delegates will have the opportunity to apply for the publication of their papers in a special issue of the International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Springer, published since 2012. ICEETE will be held at the Ilmenau University of Technology (Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany). This is Thuringia‘s second-largest university with about 7,000 students and an emphasis on mathematics, physics, informatics, several engineering disciplines and media studies. Since 1990, many research institutes have been established in the area around the university making Ilmenau an important hub of technological research.