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Optimal Renovation Strategies through Life-Cycle Analysis in a Pilot Building Located in a Mild Mediterranean Climate
(MDPI, 2021-02)
The 2030 climate and energy framework includes EU-wide targets and policy objectives for the period 2021–2030 of (1) at least 55% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (from 1990 levels); (2) at least 32% share for renewable ...
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Review of EU product energy efficiency policies: What have we achieved in 40 years?
(Elsevier, 2023-10)
The improvement of energy efficiency of products is a key pillar of climate and energy strategy in the European Union (EU). The first EU product policies were adopted in the late 1970s, and they have evolved to become a ...
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Revisiting Kaya Identity to define an Emissions Indicators Pyramid
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
The impact of energy use on the planet due to related CO2 emissions is continuously increasing, despite the adoption of efficiency and decarbonisation policies and widespread environmental awareness. Climate change mitigation ...
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Opportunities of Reducing the Energy Consumption of Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination by Exploiting Salinity Gradients
(MDPI, 2022-11)
This work presents a performance assessment of three seawater reverse osmosis—pressure-retarded osmosis (SWRO-PRO) hybrid schemes for energy consumption reduction in seawater desalination applications by using an external ...
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Energy Efficiency Indicators for Assessing Construction Systems Storing Renewable Energy: Application to Phase Change Material-Bearing Façades
(MDPI, 2015-08-13)
Assessing the performance or energy efficiency of a single construction element by itself is often a futile exercise. That is not the case, however, when an element is designed, among others, to improve building energy ...
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Behaviour of a concrete wall containing micro‐encapsulated PCM after a decade of its construction
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-04)
Today, our society has the duty of reducing the energy consumed in the building sector. A promising technology to achieve this goal is the implementation of thermal energy storage (TES) solutions in buildings envelope. ...
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Advances in thermal energy storage materials and their applications towards zero energy buildings: A critical review
(Elsevier BV, 2017)
Buildings are responsible for one-third of the world's energy consumption, of which 60% is due to heating and cooling. To accomplish the low-carbon energy goal in the building sector, thermal energy storage offers a number ...