Recent progress on urban overheating and heat island research. Integrated assessment of the energy, environmental, vulnerability and health impact. Synergies with …

M Santamouris - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban overheating is documented for more than 400 major cities in the world. Numerous
experimental data show that the magnitude of the average temperature increase may …

Assessing the impact of climate change on building heating and cooling energy demand in Canada

U Berardi, P Jafarpur - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the building sector has received increasing attention with attempts to limit its
energy consumptions and GHG emissions. In fact, buildings account for more than 30% of …

Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 C to 2.0 C

ND Miranda, J Lizana, SN Sparrow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Limiting global mean temperature rise to 1.5° C is increasingly out of reach. Here we show
the impact on global cooling demand in moving from 1.5° C to 2.0° C of global warming …

Robust optimization of microgrid based on renewable distributed power generation and load demand uncertainty

J Yang, C Su - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The uncertainty of renewable distributed energy (photovoltaic, wind power, etc.) and load
demand in the microgrid poses challenges to the economy and safety of microgrid …

Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene

AJ Woodhead, CC Hicks, AV Norström… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs underpin a range of ecosystem goods and services that contribute to the well‐
being of millions of people. However, tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene are likely to be …

Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe?

J Spinoni, JV Vogt, G Naumann, P Barbosa, A Dosio - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
As a result of climate change in recent past and unsustainable land management, drought
became one of the most impacting disasters and, with the projected global warming, it is …

Machine learning approaches for estimating commercial building energy consumption

C Robinson, B Dilkina, J Hubbs, W Zhang… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Building energy consumption makes up 40% of the total energy consumption in the United
States. Given that energy consumption in buildings is influenced by aspects of urban form …

On the energy impact of urban heat island and global warming on buildings

M Santamouris - Energy and buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban heat island and global warming increase ambient temperature and modify the energy
budget of buildings. The magnitude of the modification has been evaluated in a large …

A renewable energy microgrids trading management platform based on permissioned blockchain

YT Lei, CQ Ma, N Mirza, YS Ren, SW Narayan… - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an energy trading platform based on the permissioned blockchain for
managing renewable energy microgrids. To accomplish low-cost and efficient renewable …

Innovating to zero the building sector in Europe: Minimising the energy consumption, eradication of the energy poverty and mitigating the local climate change

M Santamouris - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The present paper discusses issues related to the three major problems of the built
environment in Europe and in particular, the energy consumption of buildings, the energy …