Application of Solar Energy in Climate-Neutral Buildings and Communities
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2432
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PV; solar energy; thermal storage; near zero-energy buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many countries have announced dates by which they want to be carbon neutral, with many of them setting the year 2050 as a target. The building sector accounts for nearly 40% of the global carbon emissions. Building operations are responsible for 28% of those total emissions. Climate-neutral buildings and communities is the only option for the building sector in the near future.
Solar thermal and solar electric (photovoltaic) energy can be used to reduce electricity, heating and cooling demand for the operation of the buildings. Solar energy technologies can provide a large share of low-temperature heating and cooling demand for buildings in 2050 and contribute a significant share to heat supply for the agricultural and industrial sectors.
In this Special Issue, manuscripts regarding solar radiation, solar heating, solar cooling, PV, PVT, passive solar buildings and so on are very welcome. The goal of this Special Issue is to exchange the latest research and developments on solar energy.
Dr. Zhiyong Tian
Dr. Jianhua Fan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar buildings
- solar heating
- solar cooling
- PV
- PVT
- solar process heat
- thermal storage for solar system
- passive radiative cooling
- daylighting
- hybrid solar system
