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The digitalization of energy systems: towards higher energy efficiency

The energy industry is going through challenging times of disruptive changes caused by decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. As the energy value chain is restructuring itself to accommodate the growing penetration of renewables, increasing ...

EPFL2021

SCCER-FURIES - Definition of optimal control of DWH for self-consumption strategies

Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger

The massive integration of renewable energy, and the electrification of the building heating systems are required in order to meet the Paris agreement’s CO2 emission target. Heat pumps and PV is expected to penetrate quickly in the market come with signifi ...

2020

On Smart-Buildings and their Integration into the Smart-Grid

Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Today's electrical grid is undergoing deep changes, resulting from the large integration of distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in an effort to decarbonize the generation of electrical energy. In addition to the emergence of this volatile electricit ...

EPFL2020

Integrating urban form and distributed energy systems: Assessment of sustainable development scenarios for a Swiss village to 2050

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Lucas Mosca, Morgane Le Guen

The integration of renewable energy in the built environment, improving the energy efficiency of buildings, and optimizing distributed energy systems are three interconnected activities that are central for the transition to sustainable cities. Here, a met ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Optimal Control Strategies of Seasonal Storage Devices for District Energy Management

Julien Jocelyn Leprince

The potential energy savings resulting from the cooperative management of community districts, also known as energy hubs, has been widely demonstrated throughout the literature. Various developed predictive control strategies have proven to generate remark ...

2018

Application of Machine Learning and Mathematical Programming in the Optimization of the Energy Management System for Hybrid-Electric Vessels Having Cyclic Operations

Francesco Baldi, Navid Mohammadzadeh

Shipping contributes today to 2.1% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and its share is expected to grow in the coming years. At the same time, fuel prices are increasing and companies of the related increase in operational costs. This demands ...

2018

Methodology for energy audits in the framework of the Energy Efficiency Directive

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Elfie Marie Méchaussie

The Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU (EED) was released in October 2012 and transposed in June 2014 by Member States. The Directive requires large companies to carry out an energy audit before December 2015, which has to be repeated every 4 years. A ...

2015

Optimizing Carbon Storage Within a Spatially Heterogeneous Upland Grassland Through Sheep Grazing Management

Charlotte Vandenberghe

Livestock grazing is known to influence carbon (C) storage in vegetation and soil. Yet, for grazing management to be used to optimize C storage, large scale investigations that take into account the typically heterogeneous distribution of grazers and C acr ...

Springer2014

Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning

Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Aurélie Thébault

Grasslands cover similar to 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide many ecosystem services. Many grasslands are heavily managed to maximize these services for human benefit, but the outcome of management is anticipated to be increasingly inf ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

GIS-based approach for defining bioenergy facilities location: A case study in Northern Spain based on marginal delivery costs and resources competition between facilities

Edgard Gnansounou, Luis Alberto Panichelli

This paper presents a GIS-based decision support system for selecting least-cost bioenergy locations when there is a significant variability in biomass farmgate price and when more than one bioenergy plant with a fixed capacity has to be placed in the regi ...

2008

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