The composition of worldwide energy consumption is undergoing tremendous changes due
to the consumption of non-renewable fossil energy and emerging global warming issues …

The continuous growth of building energy consumption and carbon emissions has
aggravated the balance between environment and energy, in which building heating and …

This paper is an updated, but totally new, version of “A review on phase change materials
(PCMs) integrated in building walls”, an article published in 2011 in Renewable and …

Sharing of renewable energy and reduction of conventional energy consumption as an
attempt to ameliorate environmental issues such as global warming has become the main …

Maintaining healthy and comfortable indoors through passive ways is challenging due to the
changing and extreme climatic conditions. The aim of this work is to review the thermal …

Advances in thermal energy storage techniques/methods, using Phase Change Material
(PCM), have gained much hype among researchers in the last decade. Thermal energy …

This paper explicitly deals with the role of thermal energy storage (TES) with respect to
energy performance measures in buildings. Buildings constitute about 50% of the total …

Net-zero emissions buildings (NZEBs) are essential to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and tackling climate change. Several studies have been conducted on NZEBs. However, a …

Researchers world-wide are investigating thermal energy storage, especially phase change
materials, for their substantial benefits in improving energy efficiency, sustaining thermal …

Due to inherent advantages of DC system over AC system such as compatibility with
renewable energy sources, storage devices and modern loads, Direct Current Microgrid …