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Achieving energy efficient districts: contributions through large-scale characterization and demand side management.
(2018-12-18)
Buildings are increasingly expected to be more efficient and sustainable since they are essential to energy policies and climate change mitigation efforts. For this reason, it is very important to develop new energy models, ...
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Empowering urban climate resilience and adaptation: Crowdsourcing weather citizen stations-enhanced temperature prediction
(Elsevier, 2024-02)
The growing impact of climate change, including extreme weather events, represents a significant challenge for humanity. With most of the world's population living in urban areas, the urban heat island effect and anthropogenic ...
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Analysis of the economic feasibility and reduction of a building’s energy consumption and emissions when integrating hybrid solar thermal/PV/micro-CHP systems
(Elsevier, 2016)
The aim of this paper is to assess the performance of several designs of hybrid systems composed of solar thermal collectors, photovoltaic panels and natural gas internal combustion engines. The software TRNSYS 17 has been ...
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Simplifying the process to perform air temperature and UHI measurements at large scales: Design of a new APP and low-cost Arduino device
(Elsevier, 2023-08)
The main purpose of Urban Heat Island (UHI) studies and the monitoring of ambient temperatures at large scales is to gather temperature information in a certain area, so as to understand temperature heterogeneity and its ...
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Mitigating energy poverty: Potential contributions of combining PV and building thermal mass storage in low-income households
(Elsevier, 2018)
The issue of energy poverty has devastating implications for the society, and it has been aggravated in the past years due to the economic crisis and the increase of energy prices. Among the most affected are those with ...
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Contributions of heat pumps to demand response: A case study of a plus-energy dwelling
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
Demand Response programs are increasingly used in the electricity sector, since they allow consumers to play a significant role for balancing supply and demand by reducing or shifting their electricity consumption. For ...
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Building geometry data from online maps for accurate thermal simulations of districts
(Springer, 2023-06)
Current approaches for simulating the energy performance of buildings on a large scale are limited by numerous assumptions and simplifications, which can lead to inaccurate estimations. While new tools and procedures are ...
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Analyzing the urban heat Island: Comprehensive methodology for data gathering and optimal design of mobile transects
(Elsevier, 2020-04)
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon is an increasingly important global issue. Understanding the physical characteristics of cities is critical, which is why many studies based on mobile measurements are currently being ...
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Design of the Refurbishment of Historic Buildings with a Cost-Optimal Methodology: A Case Study
(MDPI, 2019-07)
The transformation of existing buildings into Near Zero Energy Buildings or even positive energy buildings remains a major challenge. In particular, historic buildings are an important cultural heritage that, in most ...