Challenges and Opportunities in Net-Zero Building Energy Efficiency Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 388
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renewable energy; concentrating solar photovoltaics; heat transfer, optics and electrical modeling; building integrated photovoltaics; static solar concentrators; integrated renewables (biomass, wind and solar integration); novel materials for solar electricity; solar electricity for sustainable building
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy is a major influencing factor in human life. Globally, energy demand is increasing at spectacularly high rates despite present efforts to prevent this. However, energy consumption is reducing in various parts of the world (discounting energy embodied in imported products). There has been a significant increase in growth in the renewable and sustainable energy sectors in recent times, although this has slowed somewhat over the past couple of years. A large part of the world’s renewable energy production (wind and solar) is installed in the countryside, where the grid often has limited capacity or demand is less compared to urban areas. Although energy demand is reducing, it is well above the national target of achieving net-zero emissions in various parts of the world. Hence, a drastic revolution is needed in the energy demand spectrum to address such challenges.
This Special Issue aims to collect innovative solutions reported to date in any field of net-zero building energy aspects. Various electricity generation technologies considered suitable for building application, energy storage, artificially controlled user behaviour and smart building energy management systems are considered for the contribution to net-zero within the building sector.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Tapas Mallick
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- building energy efficiency
- net-zero in building
- solar photovoltaics for buildings
- solar thermal for buildings
- thermal energy storage
- thermochemical energy storage
- artificial intelligence for building
- smart windows
- smart operations in buildings
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