Energy Storage in Smart Buildings

Dear Colleagues,

The ability to provide smart and economical approaches for distributed energy storage in buildings—whether electrical, chemical, or thermal—is becoming increasingly crucial. Transitions to electric heating systems (e.g., heatpumps), buildings networked with electric vehicles, and growing portions of intermittent renewables on the grid, will only accelerate this trend.

With this Special Issue of Sustainability, “Energy Storage in Smart Buildings”, we aim to provide a snapshot of the latest scientific and technological innovations to address this trend, covering the full spectrum from hardware and material solutions, advanced tariff models, to control systems and algorithms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New hardware or material solutions for electrical, chemical, or thermal storage in buildings;
• Advanced tariffs and transaction models to promote smartgrid-to-building integrations;
• Simulations or empirical studies investigating to what extent load or storage sharing between multiple building can reduce the capacity requirement for standalone storage in individual buildings;
• Dispatch strategies and/or control systems, including Building Automation Systems, to optimize the performance of individual components of the energy storage system or the building as a whole;
• Special challenges/solutions to using electric or alternative fuel-based vehicles as a means of building-based storage;
• Synergies of integrating building energy storage with building-based distributed generation (e.g., solar);
• Opportunities or challenges of building-based energy storage with respect to building or grid reliability and resilience.

Dr. Christoph Meinrenken
Dr. Menglian Zheng
Prof. Dr. Yi Ding
Guest Editors

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