Building PV integration according to regional climate conditions: BIPV regional adaptability extending Köppen-Geiger climate classification against urban and climate …

N Skandalos, M Wang, V Kapsalis, D D'Agostino… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the technical maturity and substantial potential cost reduction of BIPV technologies,
there are still challenges to overcome for the expansion of BIPV applications and their wider …

PV energy communities—Challenges and barriers from a consumer perspective: A literature review

R Lazdins, A Mutule, D Zalostiba - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Renewable energy sources, in particular those based on solar radiation, are growing rapidly
and are planned to play an instrumental role in building power systems to reach the 2030 …

Impact of shared battery energy storage systems on photovoltaic self-consumption and electricity bills in apartment buildings

MB Roberts, A Bruce, I MacGill - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Distributed photovoltaics is playing a growing role in electricity industries around the world,
while Battery Energy Storage Systems are falling in cost and starting to be deployed by …

A techno-economic sizing method for grid-connected household photovoltaic battery systems

Y Zhang, T Ma, PE Campana, Y Yamaguchi, Y Dai - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Battery storage provides an effective solution to alleviate the burden of the intermittent
photovoltaic production on the grid and increase photovoltaic penetration in residential …

Integrating solar energy and nature-based solutions for climate-neutral urban environments

HY Liu, N Skandalos, L Braslina, V Kapsalis… - Solar, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on achieving climate neutrality in European cities by integrating solar
energy technologies and nature-based solutions. Through an examination of current …

Integrated physical approach to assessing urban-scale building photovoltaic potential at high spatiotemporal resolution

Z Liu, X Liu, H Zhang, D Yan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessing the urban-scale building photovoltaic (PV) potential is important for designing
urban environments, retrofitting existing structures, or integrating PVs with grids. However …

A decision-making design framework for the integration of PV systems in the urban energy planning process

Y Kurdi, BJ Alkhatatbeh, S Asadi, H Jebelli - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Researchers typically use performance analysis tools to support the design decisions of PV
systems on urban scales. However, performance simulation tools are mostly used for …

[HTML][HTML] Designing and assessing solar energy neighborhoods from visual impact

P Florio, G Peronato, ATD Perera, A Di Blasi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimal diffusion of Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) in cities requires diligent
planning to arrange temporal and spatial distribution of energy, while preserving the …

[HTML][HTML] Performance and prospects of urban energy communities conditioned by the built form and function: A systematic investigation using agent-based modeling

O Mussawar, RR Urs, A Mayyas, E Azar - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies on energy communities, as a means to help achieve sustainability goals such as self-
sufficiency, rarely consider the influence of urban context (built form and function) on their …

A comparison of arrangements for increasing self-consumption and maximising the value of distributed photovoltaics on apartment buildings

MB Roberts, A Bruce, I MacGill - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
As subsidised feed-in-tariffs for distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation are reduced or
abolished in many jurisdictions, there is growing interest in increasing self-consumption to …