The last week of September was held in the Technical University of Vienna the workshop titled “Energy Flexible Buildings: Potential and Performance”. This workshop was organized in the run-up of the 5th working meeting of the IEA EBC Annex 67 “Energy Flexible Buildings” in Graz, a research project within the Technology Collaboration Programme “Energy in…
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Demand-side management by real-time market-based control
Energy Transition and the Distribution Grid Future distribution grids will very much differ from what we currently define as a distribution grid. Deregulation of electricity markets, along with electrification of transportation and heating, and the shift towards cleaner renewable energy resources are all inevitable, together with their effects. Future distribution grids will be characterized by[i]…
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Solar energy: the once and future king
Introduction Solar energy is inexhaustible. The amount of solar irradiation that reaches the Earth’s surface is tremendous: approximately 10,000 times more than the current humanity’s energy needs for a whole year [1]. Besides solar power, many other forms of renewable energy such as wind energy, hydropower and biomass depend on the Sun. Wind, used by…
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