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Energy flexibility in Mediterranean buildings: a case-study in Sicily

2020

Since the building sector is responsible for 40% of the world’s electricity demand, it is essential to act on it in order to reduce emissions of climate change gases on a global scale, as expressed also in the latest directive on the energy performance of buildings. A design approach that focuses on the energy flexibility of buildings can contribute to the improvement of its energy-environmental performances. In this context, the objective of the study is the analysis of the energy performance of a residential building in Sicily and the definition of strategies aimed at increasing its energy flexibility. In particular, the case study is a 631 m2 single-family house, modeled and simulated in…

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A Review of Key Performance Indicators for Building Flexibility Quantification to Support the Clean Energy Transition

2021

The transition to a sustainable society and a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 requires extensive deployment of renewable energy sources that, due to the aleatority and non-programmability of most of them, may seriously affect the stability of existing power grids. In this context, buildings are increasingly being seen as a potential source of energy flexibility for the power grid. In literature, key performance indicators, allowing different aspects of the load management, are used to investigate buildings’ energy flexibility. The paper reviews existing indicators developed in the context of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies on flexible buildings, outlining the current status a…

Flexibility (engineering)TechnologySettore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleControl and OptimizationRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environmentbusiness.industryComputer scienceTEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyContext (language use)key performance indicatorsGridRenewable energyElectric power systemLoad managementRisk analysis (engineering)Software deploymentenergy flexibilityPerformance indicatorElectrical and Electronic Engineeringenergy flexible buildingsbusinessEngineering (miscellaneous)building grid serviceEnergy (miscellaneous)Energies
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Investigation of design strategies and quantification of energy flexibility in buildings: A case-study in southern Italy

2021

Abstract The need for nearly (net) zero energy buildings in the current European landscape does not merely refer to energy balances: the aim to investigate the interaction between generation and load and find sources of technical-economic energy efficiency is marking the rise in interest throughout research and practice of energy flexibility solutions in buildings. In this regard, the study aims at enhancing the energy flexibility of a building in southern Italy through Rule-Based Control algorithms for the control of the space heating system and the charge and discharge of an electricity storage. The influence of electricity pricing and the thermal comfort conditions on flexibility is also…

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