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Manonukul, Poom (author)With the rapid increase in renewable energy demand, various kinds of renewable technologies have been realized. Of particular interest is that they require a certain amount of space, and they may conflict with other land utilization purposes such as food production, protected nature areas, and life-sustaining services, thus the land use pressure...master thesis 2023
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Potapenko, Tatiana (author), Döhler, Jessica S. (author), Francisco, Francisco (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Temiz, Irina (author)Decarbonization of ports is a major goal to reduce their global carbon footprint. The port of Hvide Sande is located on the coast of the North Sea in Denmark and it has the potential to utilize various renewable energy sources. Wind and solar thermal parks are already installed there. Wave energy is an alternative to solar and wind energies and...journal article 2023
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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...journal article 2023
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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...journal article 2023
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Ma, Dong (author), Lan, G. (author), Hu, Changshuo (author), Hassan, Mahbub (author), Hu, Wen (author), Mushfika, Upama (author), Uddin, Ashraf (author), Youssef, Moustafa (author)We design a system, SolarGest, which can recognize hand gestures near a solar-powered device by analyzing the patterns of the photocurrent. SolarGest is based on the observation that each gesture interferes with incident light rays on the solar panel in a unique way, leaving its discernible signature in harvested photocurrent. Using solar...journal article 2023
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Kraaijvanger, C.W. (author), Verma, T. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author)With technological advances and decreasing prices, solar energy is a key technology in the urban energy transition. However, the focus on increasing the overall installed capacity has overshadowed energy justice considerations, leading to inequalities in solar energy adoption. This paper adopts an equity perspective to analyse the transition...journal article 2023
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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...doctoral thesis 2022
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Hubert, Naomi (author)To use solar energy efficiently, reduce emissions and net congestion problems, prosumer households should substitute grid-consumed energy with self-consumption. Loadshifting is a low-cost measure to increase self-consumption, shifting energy-intensive behaviors (such as running the laundry machine) to periods of time when energy is produced....master thesis 2022
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Rukhshi, Nida (author)Photovoltaic technology has become one of the leading renewable alternatives for energy production. One main factor in the diminished performance of a photovoltaic module is partial shading, due to the resulting mismatch conditions in the module. However, it is difficult to understand how a specific PV module reacts to shading in comparison with...master thesis 2022
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Reuchlin, Sweder (author)Currently, in remote off-grid locations, electricity is primarily generated using diesel generators, which is expensive and has significant carbon emissions. Alternatively, these remote locations have a huge potential for utilizing renewable energy sources. In such locations, airborne wind energy (AWE) systems could have an advantage over...master thesis 2022
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Mercimek, Yavuzhan (author)As PV capacity in urban areas keeps increasing, non-uniform illumination of panels will become more prevalent. This could cause the partial shading to become more frequent, reducing PV system performance. Some ways to solve this problem is by the use of module-level maximum power point tracking (MPPT), micro inverters, or...master thesis 2022
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Hablé, Joelle (author)Floating photovoltaic (FPV) is an emerging concept. Potential is recognized in combining FPV and off shore wind farms to create an offshore wind and solar farm. One of the remaining uncertainties around the potential of an offshore wind and solar farm is the value of the operations and maintenance cost. As one of the main contributing factors...master thesis 2022
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sirianni, francesco (author)As we all know, plastic pollution is a global problem that is constantly growing, with adverse effects on societies, humans, and wildlife. <br/>Many initiatives are focusing on reducing and lowering the effects of plastic pollution. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is growing on a daily basis. <br/>Most of the harmful effects of plastic pollution...master thesis 2022
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Rath, Chinmaya (author)With an increase in population, there is increasing pressure and higher demand in world energy production. Even though there is a high dependency on fossil fuels renewable energy usage has seen a sharp rise in recent years. Solar energy is a major player and contributes a lot to this field. The thin-film solar cell which is a part of second...master thesis 2022
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van Nijen, D.A. (author), Manganiello, P. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Power electronics traditionally plays a crucial role in conditioning the power of photovoltaic (PV) modules and connecting the systems to the electricity grid. Recently, PV module designs with more sub-module power electronics are gaining increased attention. These designs can offer higher reliability and improved resilience against non...review 2022
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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...journal article 2022
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Bdour, Ahmed N. (author), Al-Sadeq, Noor (author), Gharaibeh, Muna (author), Mendoza-Sammet, Angeles (author), Kennedy, M.D. (author), Salinas-Rodriguez, Sergio G. (author)Jordan was late in adopting seawater and brackish water desalination as a source until the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, ongoing studies are still discussing the technical, economic, and socio-political aspects of brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) desalination plants. In this study, the water–energy nexus was considered, in order...journal article 2022
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Nespoli, Jasmeen (author)Among the emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies under development, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) stood out in the last decade as one the fastest advancing solar technology to date, reaching a power conversion efficiency of 25.5% in 2020. Perovskite (PVK) absorbers show great versatility thanks to compositional and bandgap engineering. In this...master thesis 2021
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Giannelli, Denis (author)In the Global South, large urban spaces resulted in the duality between the so-called ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ cities. It is the case of São Paulo, a twenty-two-million people metropolis and a financial hub in Latin America. Albeit a vast literature addresses the social-spatial segregation emerging from this dual built environment, the scarcity...master thesis 2021
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Marabini, Elena (author)With the 2019 European Green Deal, the EU has set an ambitious roadmap to enable European citizens to benefit from a Green Transition. One of the main goal of the Green Deal is the deployment of renewable energy sources. Within these, solar power has been identified as the fastest growing<br/>source. Within solar technologies, crystalline...master thesis 2021