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Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Smart Lighting Technologies

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 14129

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Georges Zissis

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Université Toulouse III—Paul Sabatier, LAPLACE UMR 5213, CNRS-INPT-UT3, 31400 Toulouse, France
Interests: light sources science and technology; solid-state and smart lighting systems; impact of lighting to energy; environment; quality of life; health and security; illumination and lighting
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Dr. Laurent Canale

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LAPLACE (Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Interests: lighting science and technology; sustainable lighting systems; impacts of lighting on performance and well-being; lighting for developing countries
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Dr. Paolo Bertoldi

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European Commission – JRC, Ispra, Italy
Interests: energy efficiency; European policies; domestic appliances; energy service companies; market-based instruments; governance; environmental leadership; ICT energy consumption

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Smart Lighting Technologies”, focuses on energy efficiency for domestic appliances, including lighting. We are targeting papers on the latest developments in technologies, behavioral aspects and policies for technologies ranging from Residential Appliances–White Goods, Smart and Clean On-Site Power Generation, Smart Appliances and Smart Homes, including Smart Lighting, Smart Grids and Metering at a domestic level, Indoor and Outdoor Lighting, Solid-State Lighting systems (LED, OLED, Lasers, UV-LEDs), Lighting Controls and Sensors, Visual Light Communications, including LiFi Technology. Beyond technology itself, this Special Issue is open also to papers on Consumer Behavior, Global Climate Change Mitigation Policies and National Programs adopted or planned, as well as Market Surveillance and Enforcement Mechanisms.

The Special Issue is mainly open to paper submissions for authors who participate in the joint 11th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting and the 17th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources that will be held in Toulouse from 1 to 3 June 2022 and who wish to publish an extended, enhanced version that takes into account fruitful discussions and exchanges during the conference. However, new papers in the domain that have not been presented in the joint conference will be considered for publication.

Prof. Dr. Georges Zissis
Dr. Laurent Canale
Dr. Paolo Bertoldi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • energy efficiency
  • domestic appliances
  • lighting
  • smart lighting systems
  • visual light communications
  • measurement methods
  • energy policies
  • energy standards and labels
  • market surveillance

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Behavioural Change as a Domestic Heat Pump Performance Driver: Insights on the Influence of Feedback Systems from Multiple Case Studies in the UK
by Eleni Oikonomou, Nici Zimmermann, Michael Davies and Tadj Oreszczyn
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16799; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416799 - 14 Dec 2022
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Heat pumps (HPs) are seen as an increasingly important technology able to contribute significantly towards the decarbonisation of the domestic stock in the UK. However, there appears to be a performance gap between predicted and real-life HP performance, with several studies highlighting the [...] Read more.
Heat pumps (HPs) are seen as an increasingly important technology able to contribute significantly towards the decarbonisation of the domestic stock in the UK. However, there appears to be a performance gap between predicted and real-life HP performance, with several studies highlighting the need to include the HP’s interaction with users when examining their performance. This study examines the role of user behaviour in mitigating this performance gap from a systems perspective. A sample of 21 case studies was selected from 700 domestic HPs monitored across the UK via the government’s Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme for the collection of qualitative and quantitative socio-technical data. The application of systems thinking facilitated the identification of the underlying interactions between the HP system and its users. The systems analysis revealed that HP performance relies on complex socio-technical system interactions, including behavioural patterns, and that enabling feedback information processes can have a significant impact on user behaviour. The study enabled a deeper perspective on performance influencers relating to behavioural patterns and achieved new insights into the requirements for well-performing HPs. These findings have important implications for policy makers, installers and manufacturers of HP systems and their users. Full article
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Electric Kettles: An Assessment of Energy-Saving Potentials for Policy Making in the European Union
by Antoine Durand, Simon Hirzel, Clemens Rohde, Marcel Gebele, Carlos Lopes, Emma Olsson and Robin Barkhausen
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 12963; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142012963 - 11 Oct 2022
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Electric kettles are found in almost every household in the European Union. Within the preparatory study to establish the Ecodesign Working Plan 2015–2017, the electricity consumption of this product group in Europe was estimated at 20 to 33 TWh in 2012, with an [...] Read more.
Electric kettles are found in almost every household in the European Union. Within the preparatory study to establish the Ecodesign Working Plan 2015–2017, the electricity consumption of this product group in Europe was estimated at 20 to 33 TWh in 2012, with an energy-saving potential of more than 20%. This led to an Ecodesign preparatory study on kettles in 2020 to analyse the potential role of environmental policy-making for electric kettles in Europe in more detail. Based on elements from this study, this paper reviews worldwide policies covering this product group, methods to assess its energy efficiency and analyses of the potential of technical improvements to enhance energy efficiency. A method is suggested for measuring the power of kettles, and corresponding power-temperature measurements of selected kettles are presented. Overall, the findings indicate that technical optimization alone has a limited potential to improve the energy efficiency of kettles and to highlight the absence of a standard for measuring the energy consumption of electric kettles. However, user-related aspects of operating kettles offer a substantial saving potential. Heating too much water or at higher than required temperatures increase the energy consumption and related energy costs of private households. This could provide leverage for policy makers to improve the market and to reduce the environmental impact of this product group beyond mere technical optimization of energy efficiency, including aspects related to circular economy and energy sufficiency. Full article
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Review and Analysis of Ecodesign Directive Implementing Measures: Product Regulations Shifting from Energy Efficiency towards a Circular Economy
by Robin Barkhausen, Antoine Durand and Katharina Fick
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 10318; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610318 - 19 Aug 2022
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The EU Ecodesign Directive was introduced as a framework to improve the environmental impact of energy-using and later energy-related products. From the beginning, the directive offered the possibility to consider not only the energy consumption of a product during its use phase, but [...] Read more.
The EU Ecodesign Directive was introduced as a framework to improve the environmental impact of energy-using and later energy-related products. From the beginning, the directive offered the possibility to consider not only the energy consumption of a product during its use phase, but a wider range of environmental aspects throughout the life cycle of a product, including circular economy aspects. We developed a circular economy taxonomy and analysed the coverage of functional and informational circular economy requirements in the 27 product groups regulated by ecodesign implementing measures from 2008 until 2021 by performing a content and keyword analysis of the legislative texts of 30 implementing measures and 16 amendments or repeals. We found circular economy requirements in 75% of currently regulated product groups and an increase in circular economy requirements over time and in particular in the legislations published in 2019. We found lighting products to be outliers, with many circular economy requirements early on and a focus on durability. For white goods, the focus was found to be on repairability requirements. Full article
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