Special Issue "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: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Concettina Marino
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering (DICEAM), Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria 89122, Italy
Interests: renewable energy sources; nearly Zero Energy Buildings; smart grid, building efficiency, innovative facade elements
Dr. Antonino Nucara
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Guest Editor
Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering (DICEAM), Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria 89122, Italy
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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A Complementary Approach to Traditional Energy Balances for Assessing Energy Efficiency Measures in Final Uses: The Case of Space Heating and Cooling in Argentina
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6563; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166563 - 13 Aug 2020
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Energy balances have been historically conceived based on a supply-side perspective, providing neither detailed information about energy conversion into useful services nor the effects that may be induced by the application of policies in other sectors to energy consumption. This article proposes an [...] Read more.
Energy balances have been historically conceived based on a supply-side perspective, providing neither detailed information about energy conversion into useful services nor the effects that may be induced by the application of policies in other sectors to energy consumption. This article proposes an approach to a thorough assessment of the impact of efficiency policies on final energy uses, focusing on residential space heating and cooling, and capable of: (1) quantifying final useful services provided and (2) accounting for the global impact of efficiency policies on final energy use, taking advantage of Input–Output analysis. This approach is applied in five cities of Argentina. Firstly, the quantity of energy service provided (i.e., level of thermal comfort) for each city is evaluated and compared with the defined target. It is found out that heating comfort is guaranteed approximately as established, whereas in the cooling case the provision is twice the established level. Secondly, primary energy consumption of heating and cooling services is evaluated before and after different efficiency improvement policies. The results show that the major primary energy saving (52%) is obtained from the upgrading appliances scenario and reflect the importance of accounting for embodied energy in goods and services involved in interventions. Full article
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