Energy Efficiency and Comfort Indoor in Smart Buildings
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 9167
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy sources; nearly Zero Energy Buildings; smart grid, building efficiency, innovative facade elements
Interests: solar energy; wind energy; energy storage; comfort indoor; building energy consumption
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is already conventional wisdom that energy use in edifices accounts for a large percentage of total energy consumption worldwide. Therefore, the transition towards low-carbon models of economy and society cannot avoid considering this important sector when both energy saving policies and emission reduction measures are designed and implemented.
However, in order to effectively reach this aim, buildings should be seen as part of a vast and articulate structure of interconnected systems which reciprocally interfere and which involve energy grids, generation from RES, energy storage and, of course, nearly Zero Energy Buildings. From this perspective, in the near future, a new sustainable and distributed energy paradigm should be established, involving all these themes.
The Special Issue "Energy Efficiency and Comfort Indoor in Smart Buildings” aims to gather high-quality papers addressing the above-mentioned topics with a particular interest in (although not limited to) methods of analysis, innovative approaches for energy performance assessment, technologies and best practices for building operation, monitoring, energy management systems and control techniques.
Dr. Concettina Marino
Dr. Antonino Nucara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy sources
- nearly Zero Energy Buildings
- smart grid
- solar energy
- wind energy
- energy storage, building efficiency, innovative facade elements
- comfort indoor
- building energy consumption
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