Due to the potential for deploying distributed generation, improving energy efficiency and
adopting sustainable energy-related practices, consumers provide significant value in the …

The energy consumption in the built environment represents one of the major contributors of
carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This leads to the need for a transition in the building …

Higher education institutions (HEIs), based on learning, innovation, and research, can
support the progress of civil society. Many HEIs are implementing sustainability practices …

This paper focuses on three different configurations of energy communities (ECs) modelled
as aggregations of local prosumers of renewable electric and thermal energy. The goal …

Abstract Recent European Directives have promoted Renewable Energy Communities as
pivotal drivers to achieve energy and environmental European targets. In this context, the …

The application of solar PT-PV technology is an important way to achieve clean energy
supply and energy conservation and emission reduction in building field. Simultaneously …

Environmental friendly thermal energy storage (TES) solutions are gaining ground
throughout the world. Many novel options, such as utilizing solar radiation collectors, reusing …

The Smart Energy Community topic has attracted a lot of interest from policy, research
centres, companies and private citizens since 2018, when in Europe the recast of the …

With the rapid development of nearly zero-energy buildings, the establishment of a nearly
zero-energy community composed of concentrated and contiguous nearly zero-energy …

While the effects of climate change are already being felt in many parts of the world,
societies are compelled to drastically rethink the way they produce and manage energy, to …