Smart Grid Integration of Zero Energy Buildings: Challenges and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources and the building and transport electrification are major pathways towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The link between them is the smart power grid. The advances in related technologies are significant enough to allow for policies to be put in place. However, the challenges related to zero-energy buildings to the grid are also significant. Proactive energy management, optimization of nano- or microgrids at building or neighborhood level, charging and discharging of electric vehicles, green hydrogen technologies at building scale, thermal and electrical storage co-optimization, optical and thermal comfort, demand side management and services to the grid, demand response mechanisms and flexibility management, prosumers and market operations, power grid operation and sustainability in the new paradigm, as well as modern user comfort standards delineate a vivid research field which involves, among others, complex tradeoffs between risk tolerance and the capital investment payback period. All topics may be examined from the viewpoint of the building/EV user, the building/neighborhood, or the main grid, not necessarily converging to the same optimal solution or design. This Special Issue aspires to contribute to this important and timely interdisciplinary research area.

Therefore, you are invited to submit your recent research results and review papers to this Special Issue on “Smart Grid Integration of Zero Energy Buildings: Challenges and Perspectives”, to be published in MDPI Energies.

Prof. Dr. Anastassios Stamatelos
Prof. Dr. Aphrodite Ktena
Guest Editors

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