Current energy generation approaches have been found as not fully sustainable with respect to environmental, economic, social, operational and technological considerations. Therefore, the need has been felt to find feasible alternatives to meet the current and future global energy demands in a most sustainable way [21]. Sustainable energy development is the decisive target of this modern world to conserve our conventional energy reserves and resources [22]. Sustainability assessment in energy planning and management has drawn an important research attention in energy sectors [23]. To achieve this, there is a need to address the goals and important challenges to the scientific community for initialing and/or adopting sustainability in energy planning and manage- ment. In chorus, it is also needed to analyze the efficient but reliable techniques/tools to assess the sustainability in energy systems logically