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Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels

Hubert, Naomi D. (author), Biely, Katharina (author), Kamp, L.M. (author), de Vries, G. (author)

The installation of solar panels by residential households is vital for the energy transition. However, the rapid uptake of solar panels by households leads to congestion in the electricity grid. Specifically, when the sun shines, these solar panels simultaneously produce a lot of electricity that is fed into the grid, which is inefficient and...

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Does the sun shine for all? Inequalities in the energy transition in The Hague

Kraaijvanger, C.W. (author), Verma, T. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author)

Over the last decade, solar energy has proven to be a key technology in transitioning to a sustainable energy system. However, current solar energy policies favour affluent households, limiting the participation of disadvantaged households in the energy transition. This leaves disadvantaged households even more vulnerable to increasing energy...

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A sustainable battery scheduling and echelon utilization framework for electric bus network with photovoltaic charging infrastructure

Liu, Xiaohan (author), Shang, Wen Long (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author), Liu, Zhengke (author), Ma, Xiaolei (author)

Battery capacity degradation in battery electric buses (BEBs) poses a significant operational challenge for transit agencies. This study presents a sustainable battery scheduling and echelon utilization framework considering battery capacity fading and charging infrastructure integrated with solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems....

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Frontier ocean thermal/power and solar PV systems for transformation towards net-zero communities

Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Yan, Jun (author), Tostado-Véliz, Marcos (author)

Ocean thermal and power energy systems are promising driving forces for seashore coastal communities to achieve net-zero energy/emission target, whereas energy planning and management on ocean thermal/power and distributed building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems are critical, in terms of serving scale sizing and planning on...

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Architectural Photovoltaic Application

Haghighi, Z. (author)

Today, photovoltaic technology is one of the fastest-growing fields of technology and is becoming the lowest-cost option for electricity generation in the greatest part of the world. Based on IEA projection, the number of households relying on solar PV grows from today’s 25 million to more than 100 million by 2030. Based on this projection, we...

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Design and assessments on a hybrid pin fin-metal foam structure towards enhancing melting heat transfer: An experimental study

Liu, Gang (author), Du, Zhao (author), Xiao, Tian (author), Guo, Junfei (author), Lu, Liu (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author)

Solar energy, as a kind of renewable energy, offers a large reserve to be harvested at a reasonably low cost for engineering applications. To decouple the temporal and spatial relevance of the continuous energy supply of solar energy, latent heat thermal energy storage can deal with this problem at different temperatures. Aiming to improve...

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Experimental study on solar heat battery using phase change materials for parabolic dish collectors

Senthil, Ramalingam (author), Priya, Inbaraj Infanta Mary (author), Gupta, Mukund (author), Rath, C. (author), Ghosh, Nilanshu (author)

Energy consumption has increased with the population increase, and fossil fuel dependency has risen and causing pollutions. Solar energy is suitable to provide society's thermo-electric needs. Thermal energy storage-based concentrated solar receivers are aimed at store heat energy and transportable to the applications. A cavity receiver with...

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A Brief Climatology of Dunkelflaute Events over and Surrounding the North and Baltic Sea Areas

Li, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)

In the coming decades, the European energy system is expected to become increasingly reliant on non-dispatchable generation such as wind and solar power. Under such a renewable energy scenario, a better characterization of the extreme weather condition ‘Dunkelflaute’, which can lead to a sustained reduction of wind and solar power, is important....

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Towards Fossil Free Cities—A Supermarket, Greenhouse & Dwelling Integrated Energy System as an Alternative to District Heating: Amsterdam Case Study

ten Caat, P.N. (author), Graamans, L.J.A. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)

The municipality of Amsterdam has set stringent carbon emission reduction targets: 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050 for the entire metropolitan area. One of the key strategies to achieve these goals entails a disconnection of all households from the natural gas supply by 2040 and connecting them to the existing city-wide heat grid. This paper aims to...

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Quantification on fuel cell degradation and techno-economic analysis of a hydrogen-based grid-interactive residential energy sharing network with fuel-cell-powered vehicles

He, Yingdong (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Liu, Jia (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)

Hydrogen-based (H₂-based) interactive energy networks for buildings and transportations provide novel solutions for carbon-neutrality transition, regional energy flexibility and independence on fossil fuel consumption, where vehicle fuel cells are key components for H₂-electricity conversion and clean power supply....

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Transformation towards a carbon-neutral residential community with hydrogen economy and advanced energy management strategies

He, Yingdong (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Yuan, Jing (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)

Cleaner power production, distributed renewable generation, building-vehicle integration, hydrogen storage and associated infrastructures are promising for transformation towards a carbon–neutral community, whereas the academia provides limited information through integrated solutions, like intermittent renewable integration, hydrogen sharing...

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Challenges and opportunities of business models in sustainable transitions: Evidence from solar energy niche development in Lebanon

Elmustapha, Houda (author), Hoppe, T. (author)

Although business models presumably have a prominent role in socio-technical change remarkably little research has been conducted in this domain, more particularly in the context of developing economies. In this paper, we tap into this knowledge gap and study business model components and the challenges they face. We argue that the market...

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Solar energy data analytics: PV deployment and land use

Mancini, Francesco (author), Nastasi, B. (author)

EU targets for sustainable development call for strong changes in the current energy systems as well as committed protection of environmental resources. This target conflicts if a policy is not going to promote the compatible solutions to both the issues. This is the case of the additional renewable energy sources to be exploited for...

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Assessing Renewable Resources at the Saronikos Gulf for the Development of Multi-Generation Renewable Systems

Lavidas, G. (author), Kaldellis, John K. (author)

Decarbonisation of any energy system implies that more renewables will have to be incorporated into the grid. This requires a thorough assessment of available resources to properly estimate potential contributions and identify opportunities. This work focuses on the Saronikos Gulf, which is part of the most crowded urban coastline in Greece....

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Earth, Wind and Solar Energy

Scholten, D.J. (author)

Renewable energy is the energy of the future – plentiful and ubiquitous. Technological advances and economies of scale are bringing down prices, whereas fossil and nuclear are increasingly uncompetitive. Here, the Green European Journal presents in numbers how energy systems will evolve over the decades to come, while Daniel Scholten traces the...

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Unravelling the practical solar charging performance limits of redox flow batteries based on a single photon device system

Bae, D. (author), Faasse, Richard (author), Kanellos, Gerasimos (author), Smith, W.A. (author)

In recent years, solar redox flow batteries have attracted attention as a possible integrated technology for simultaneous conversion and storage of solar energy. Unlike solar water splitting technologies which require at least 1.8V for meaningful performance, a lesson learned from previous solar redox flow battery (SRFB) studies is that even...

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Fast and accurate ray-casting-based view factor estimation method for complex geometries

Sönmez, Furkan Fatih (author), Ziar, H. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)

The concept of view factor has various applications in engineering problems, ranging from heat management to bifacial photovoltaics. Analytical solutions for view factor calculations are difficult to obtain and normally numerical methods are used. For complex geometries, when several surfaces are arbitrarily arranged in a threedimensional...

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Understanding stakeholders' views and the influence of the socio-cultural dimension on the adoption of solar energy technology in Lebanon

Elmustapha, Houda (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Bressers, Hans (author)

In light of climate change and global commitments, a great amount of programs and policies have been implemented by governments targeting the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. Successful diffusion relies on the understanding, persuasion and acceptance by consumers and other stakeholders. This article investigates the views, roles...

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Small scale Compressed Air Energy Storage application for renewable energy integration in a listed building

Castellani, Beatrice (author), Morini, Elena (author), Nastasi, B. (author), Nicolini, Andrea (author), Rossi, Federico (author)

In EU where the architectural heritage is significant, enhancing the energy performance of historical buildings is of great interest. Constraints, such as the lack of space especially within the historical centers and architectural peculiarities, make the application of technologies for renewable energy production and storage a challenging issue...

journal article 2018

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Back-contacted BaSi₂ solar cells: An optical study

Vismara, R. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)

We present the optical investigation of a novel back-contacted architecture for solar cells based on a thin barium (di)silicide (BaSi₂) absorber. First, through the analysis of absorption limits of different semiconducting materials, we show the potential of BaSi₂ for photovoltaic applications. Then, the proposed back...

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