In the perspective of the Net Zero Energy Buildings as specified in the EPBD 2010/31/EU, we propose the concept and design of a modular unglazed solar thermal (UST) façade component for facilitating the installation of active solar façades. The renovation of existing buildings offers an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency when using such a system and a novel design methodology tackled ...

Abstract The authors main idea is to build energy plus buildings by means of architectural processes design passive houses according the Darmstadt Standard with additional equipment powered renewable energy. article presents a comparative financial analysis house an source power charge electric cars in Poland and United States. based on market data while also taking into consideration inflation...

This study was born in the context of new challenges imposed by the recast of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. The aim of this work is to develop strategies to identify and investigate the relationship between decisional variables within a nZEB design concept, providing a useful method to deal with a huge number of simulations corresponding to a large number of building configu...

California is a leader in automating demand response (DR) to promote low-cost, consistent, and predictable electric grid management tools. Over 250 commercial and industrial facilities in California participate in fully-automated programs providing over 60 MW of peak DR savings. This paper presents a summary of Open Automated DR (OpenADR) implementation by each of the investor-owned utilities i...

The global construction industry is in a transition period of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. The recast of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in 2010 will require Member States to achieve nearly zero-energy for all new buildings from the 1st of January 2021 and for all new buildings occupied and owned by public authorities to be nearly zero-energy from th...

After a short description of the physical phenomena involved, unified expressions are worked out describing net airflow and net heat flow through large vertical openings between stratified zones. These formulae are based on those of Cockroft for bidirectional flow, but are more general in the sense that they apply to situations of unidirectional flow as well. The expressions are compatible with...