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Green Energy Integrated Building Application

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2025 | Viewed by 1069

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Yu Liu

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School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710060, China
Interests: green building design; sustainable building and environmental assessment; solar building
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Dr. Xiangzhao Meng

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School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Interests: building energy; solar energy; building environments; low carbon building technology
Dr. Jingyuan Zhao

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School of Architecture, Chang’an University, 161 Chang’an Zhong Lu, Xi’an 710061, China
Interests: urban climate and urban design; building energy efficiency; green building
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The IPCC's AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 shows that global temperatures are expected to rise by more than 1.5 ℃ in the 21st century. Global warming is the result of energy consumption, with buildings accounting for 30% of global end-use energy consumption. Using green energy, adjusting the energy structure, promoting the integration of green energy buildings, and innovating the application of low-carbon energy in buildings are important ways to deal with the problem of energy shortage, reduce building carbon emissions, and slow down global warming.

This Special Issue publishes selected papers from the 19th China Renewable Energy Conference Solar Building Branch and the 7th Towards Capacity Building Technology Development Forum (https://meeting.creac.org.cn/10591.html), and it aims to publish the latest original research on the integrated utilization of green energies in buildings, emphasizing innovative theories, methods and technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Green energies and building/community/landscape/city construction;
  • Green energy integrated buildings (thermal utilization, electricity generation, combined production of thermal and electricity, etc.);
  • Low-carbon energy employment and innovation in buildings;
  • Photovoltaic, energy storage, direct current, flexibility application in buildings;
  • Efficient storage and conversion of building energies.

Prof. Dr. Yu Liu
Dr. Xiangzhao Meng
Dr. Jingyuan Zhao
Guest Editors

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  • green energy
  • building
  • integrated application

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28 pages, 17955 KiB  
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Development of a Method for Evaluating the Influence of Building Facade Form on Its Potential for Solar Radiation Acquisition
by Shangkai Hao, Yu Liu, Xiaojing Yang and Jie Song
Energies 2024, 17(24), 6394; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17246394 - 19 Dec 2024
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Studying the potential of buildings for utilizing solar radiation would be helpful to decrease the energy consumption of buildings. The solar radiation acquisition (SRA) potential of building facades can be used to characterize the building’s SRA potential. A review of the existing literature [...] Read more.
Studying the potential of buildings for utilizing solar radiation would be helpful to decrease the energy consumption of buildings. The solar radiation acquisition (SRA) potential of building facades can be used to characterize the building’s SRA potential. A review of the existing literature shows that few performance indicators have been established to specifically evaluate and guide the design of the building facade form from the perspective of SRA potential. This study explores how to evaluate the form of building facades to affect their SRA potential. Two new indicators (ρ value—the surface density of solar radiation received by the facades—and α value—the correction coefficient for receiving solar radiation in the concave part of the facade) and one new path were constructed to evaluate the SRA potential of building facades. It was found that the ρ values can reflect the upper limit of solar radiation in the region itself and serve as a basis for measuring the building’s SRA potential in the region. It is only related to the shapes of buildings and not to their sizes, and the larger the ρ value of a building, the stronger its facade’s potential to receive solar radiation. The α values can intuitively show the discount of the SRA potential when adding a concave part into the architectural design. At the same time, the extent of the discount due to the elements of the concave part can be elucidated, which can help minimize the loss of solar radiation when designing the concave part in the architectural design process. It is only related to the shapes of building plans (which directly relate to the building facade) but not their sizes. The larger the α value of the concave part of the building facade, the stronger its potential to receive solar radiation. The method for identifying the proper range of ρ values and calculating the standard ρ values was proposed and utilized in Lanzhou city as an example. It reveals that, for Lanzhou city, the maximum ρ value (ρmax) is 670.98 kwh/m2 and the average value of ρ value (ρave) is 592.47 kwh, which reflect the basic situation of buildings’ SRA potentials in this city. For the concave parts of the triangular facades in this specific region, the concave offset has almost no effect on their α value. When the concave part of the building facade is triangular, the further south the concave part (rectangular is up to 30° southwest), the smaller the CCS, the higher the concave HWR, the larger the correction coefficient, and the greater the SRA potential of the buildings’ facades. Full article
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