Dear Colleagues,

Resilience (sometimes referred to as “resiliency”) is "the ability to resist being affected by an event or the ability to return to an acceptable level of performance in an acceptable period of time after being affected by an event closing." In the wake of a disaster or other extreme event, the benefits of energy-efficient buildings can extend far beyond cost savings. Buildings designed to be energy efficient, or which are capable of producing energy onsite, offer a greater level of protection to the people and operations they house.

This Special Issue covers research on how energy efficiency and onsite energy contribute to resilience. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Environmental assessment of buildings.
• Thermal comfort strategies.
• Indoor thermal environment.
• Building energy analysis and efficiency.
• Green buildings.
• Construction materials and their impact on indoor conditions.

Dr. Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Guest Editor

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• environmental assessment of building
• thermal comfort strategies
• indoor thermal environment
• building energy analysis and efficiency
• green buildings
• construction materials and their impact on indoor conditions

Title: Impact of solar radiation, tariff structure and load profiles on resilience of buildings with critical loads and hybrid energy storage
Authors: Enrique Rosales-Asensio; Iker de Loma-Osorio; Ana I. Palmero-Marrero; Antonio Pulido-Alonso; David Borge-Diez
Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira S/N, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Abstract: This research aims to optimize and compare the annual costs of energy services in buildings with critical loads and analyze a case study for hospitals and higher education institutions in the United States. Besides the electricity and natural gas costs, the study considered all the infrastructure costs of capital amortization and maintenance. In addition, it studies energy resilience improvement due to distributed generation, such as solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, internal combustion engines, and fuel cells. The optimization considers the electrical consumption, the heating and cooling de-mands, and the operational strategy of the energy storage systems. To simulate a real scenario, all the energy tariffs were modeled to be considered in the model and the final optimization results. Some of the microgrid load was considered critical to model resilience benefits. Results show that if favorable energy tariffs are applied, the benefits of increasing energy resilience represent a novel market with high potential in facilities with significant critical loads. This methodology can be used in similar scenarios, adapting each particular load profile and critical load to provide a combined optimal solution regarding resilience and economic benefits.