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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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Heuristic optimization of clusters of heat pumps: A simulation and case study of residential frequency reserve
(Elsevier, 2019)
The technological challenges of adapting energy systems to the addition of more renewables are intricately interrelated with the ways in which markets incentivize their development and deployment. Households with own onsite ...
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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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Assessment of the photovoltaic potential at urban level based on 3D city models: A case study and new methodological approach
(Elsevier, 2017)
The use of 3D city models combined with simulation functionalities allows to quantify energy demand and renewable generation for a very large set of buildings. The scope of this paper is to determine the solar photovoltaic ...
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An Economic, Energy, and Environmental Analysis of PV/Micro-CHP Hybrid Systems: A Case Study of a Tertiary Building
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-11-07)
Our present standard of living depends strongly on energy sources, with buildings being a primary focus when it comes to reducing energy consumption due to their large contribution, especially in tertiary buildings. The ...
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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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Setting intelligent city tiling strategies for urban shading simulations
(Elsevier, 2017)
Assessing accurately the solar potential of all building surfaces in cities, including shading and multiple reflections between buildings, is essential for urban energy modelling. However, since the number of surface ...