Latest review
First review round: 17.4 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad).
Outcome: Rejected.
Motivation:
I have published previously in Applied Energy, but something has changed.
For this paper the first reviewer gave very good comments and advised for acceptance with no modifications.
Second reviewer however had very poor English and suggested outright reject based only on low resolution figures. I supplied vector graphics figures as separate files, but reviewer did not check these.
I do not think the reviewer even read the paper as there was no other justification for the reject. And as the level of English was so poor, I do not think the reviewer could have even understood the text.
The editor did not supply any context for the rejection, and I think the editor did not even check the review comments.