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Li, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)In the near future, wind and solar generation are projected to play an increasingly important role in Europe's energy sector. With such fast-growing renewable energy development, the presence of simultaneous calm wind and overcast conditions could cause significant shortfalls in production with potentially serious consequences for system...journal article 2021
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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...journal article 2020
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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...journal article 2020
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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....journal article 2020
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Narayan, N.S. (author)Almost a billion people globally lack access to electricity. For various reasons, grid extension is not an immediately viable solution for the un(der-) electrified communities. As most of these electricity-starved regions lie in tropical latitudes, the use of off-grid solar-based solutions like solar home systems (SHS) is a logical approach....doctoral thesis 2019
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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...journal article 2019
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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...journal article 2019
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Camilo Arevalo, Juan (author), Medina, Diego Rodriguez (author), Rodriguez, Sergio Raul Rivera (author), Rueda, José L. (author)This paper concerns with the development of two new testbeds, the associated datasets, and the analysis of the results obtained by applying different heuristic optimization algorithms that participated in the 2018 panel and competition on”Emerging heuristic optimization algorithms for operational planning of sustainable electrical power...journal article 2019
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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...journal article 2019
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Agarwal, Girish (author), Allen, Roland E. (author), Bezděková, Iva (author), Boyd, Robert W. (author), Chen, Goong (author), Hanson, R. (author), Hawthorne, Dean L. (author), Hemmer, Philip (author), Kim, Moochan B. (author), Kocharovskaya, Olga (author), Lee, D. (author), Lidström, Sebastian K. (author), Lidström, Suzy (author), Losert, Harald (author), Maier, Helmut (author), Neuberger, John W. (author), Padgett, Miles J. (author), Raizen, Mark (author), Rajendran, Surjeet (author), Rasel, Ernst (author), Schleich, Wolfgang P. (author), Scully, Marlan O. (author), Shchedrin, Gavriil (author), Shvets, Gennady (author), Sokolov, Alexei (author), Svidzinsky, Anatoly (author), Walsworth, Ronald L. (author), Weiss, Rainer (author), Wilczek, Frank (author), Willner, Alan E. (author), Yablonovich, Eli (author), Zheludev, Nikolay (author)The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) has been a seminal force in quantum optics and related areas since 1971. It is rather mind-boggling to recognize how the concepts presented at these conferences have transformed scientific understanding and human society. In January 2017, the participants of PQE were asked to...journal article 2018
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Gao, Y. (author), Dong, J. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Tan, H. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Vertical space bears great potential of solar energy especially for congested urban areas, where photovoltaic (PV) windows in high-rise buildings can contribute to both power generation and daylight harvest. Previous studies on sun-tracking PV windows strayed into the trade-off between tracking performance and mutual shading, failing to achieve...journal article 2018
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Ruggeri, Edoardo (author), van Aken, Bas (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Imaging techniques, like electroluminescence and dark lock-in thermography, are valuable quality control tools as they yield quantitative and spatially resolved information about the device. In this paper, we isolated some of the conductive foil–cell interconnections of back-contact solar cells to study the appearance of these...journal article 2018
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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...journal article 2018
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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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Vega Garita, V.E. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Narayan, N.S. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Due to the variable nature of the photovoltaic generation, energy storage is imperative, and the combination of both in one device is appealing for more efficient and easy‐to‐use devices. Among the myriads of proposed approaches, there are multiple challenges to overcome to make these solutions realistic alternatives to current systems. This...journal article 2018
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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 (BaSi<sub>2</sub>) absorber. First, through the analysis of absorption limits of different semiconducting materials, we show the potential of BaSi<sub>2</sub> for photovoltaic applications. Then, the proposed back...journal article 2017
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Chandra Mouli, G.R. (author), Prasanth, V. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV) will be the key factor for ensuring a smooth transition to e-mobility. This paper focuses on five technologies that will play a fundamental role in this regard: smart charging, vehicle-to-grid (V2G), charging of EVs from photovoltaic panels (PV), contactless charging and on-road charging of...conference paper 2017
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Castellani, Beatrice (author), Gambelli, Alberto Maria (author), Morini, Elena (author), Nastasi, B. (author), Presciutti, Andrea (author), Filipponi, Mirko (author), Nicolini, Andrea (author), Rossi, Federico (author)The utilization of the captured CO2 as a carbon source for the production of energy storage media offers a technological solution for overcoming crucial issues in current energy systems. Solar energy production generally does not match with energy demand because of its intermittent and non-programmable nature, entailing the adoption of storage...journal article 2017
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Santbergen, R. (author), Mishima, Ryoto (author), Meguro, Tomomi (author), Hino, Masashi (author), Uzu, Hisashi (author), Blanker, A.J. (author), Yamamoto, Kenji (author), Zeman, M. (author)In a monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem device, the perovskite top cell has to be deposited onto a flat c-Si bottom cell without anti-reflective front side texture, to avoid fabrication issues. We use optical simulations to analyze the reflection losses that this induces. We then systematically minimize these losses by introducing surface...journal article 2016