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Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, Nuria Castilla and Antonio Galiano-Garrigós
The dry Mediterranean climate (BShs) is the European region with the highest number of hours of sunshine per year. The high annual solar radiation makes sun shading devices necessary to comply with current energy efficiency standards. However, these stan...
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WoonSeong Jeong, ByungChan Kong and Sang-Guk Yum
The demand for compact housing is on the rise, driven by the need for floor plans that accommodate stakeholders? preferences. However, clients frequently struggle to convey their spatial needs to professionals, such as architects, due to a lack of means ...
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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Stefania Perrella, Fabio Bisegna, Piero Bevilacqua, Daniela Cirone and Roberto Bruno
In the EU, the building sector is responsible for 40% of the global energy consumption for final uses and 36% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Heat pumps allow for the replacement of conventional systems based on fossil fuels with the perspective o...
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Rocío Escandón, Carmen María Calama-González, Alicia Alonso, Rafael Suárez and Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez
Climate change will have a great impact on the hottest climates of southern Europe and the existing residential stock will be extremely vulnerable to these future climatic conditions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to update this building stock consi...
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Tugçin Kirant Mitic and Karsten Voss
Electricity generation from renewable energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions and, in the long term, the cost of electricity in power grids. However, there is currently no strong positive correlation between greenhouse gas intensity and electricity spot ...
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Soonmyung Lee and Sanghoon Park
In order to expand the zero-energy building, it is necessary to evaluate the economic feasibility of the passive and active elements applied to achieve the zero-energy building. The purpose of this study is to verify the final energy consumption and inve...
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Yuchen Ju, Pauli Hiltunen, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen and Sanna Syri
Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response. In ...
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Ruzica Jurjevic and Tea Zakula
Power grids in the 21st century face unprecedented challenges, including the urgent need to combat pollution, mitigate climate change, manage dwindling fossil fuel reserves, integrate renewable energy sources, and meet greater energy demand due to higher...
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Bader Alaifan and Elie Azar
A net-zero energy community (NZEC) is a promising paradigm that can directly contribute to a sustainable building sector and infrastructure. This research presents a unique empirical techno-economic optimization and evaluation approach for NZEC potential...
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