A review study about energy renovation of building facades with BIPV in urban environment

Saretta, Erika; Caputo, Paola; Frontini, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.002

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“…The photovoltaic systems deployment can have very limited impacts, identifying the most suitable places through clear methodologies [21] and promoting the installation on already built areas [22,23], or in any case not suitable for other uses. Furthermore, TPO (third party ownership) or community-shared (CS) business models are spreading, transforming rooftop solar systems into a simple service [24][25][26].…”

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How Climate Change Affects the Building Energy Consumptions Due to Cooling, Heating, and Electricity Demands of Italian Residential Sector

Mancini

Basso

2020

Energies

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Climate change affects the buildings’ performance, significantly influencing energy consumption, as well as the indoor thermal comfort. As a consequence, the growing outdoor environmental temperatures entail a slight reduction in heating consumption and an increase in cooling consumption, with different overall effects depending on the latitudes. This document focuses attention on the Italian residential sector, considering the current and reduced meteorological data, in anticipation of future climate scenarios. According to a sample of 419 buildings, referring to the climatic conditions of Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples, the heating and cooling needs are calculated by a simplified dynamic model, in current and future conditions. The effects of the simplest climate adaptation measure, represented by the introduction of new air conditioners, have been also evaluated. The simulations results show an important reduction in complex energy consumption (Milan −6%, Florence −22%, Rome −25%, Naples −30%), due to the greater incidence of heating demand in the Italian context. However, the increase in air conditioning electrical consumption over the hot season (Milan +11%, Florence +20%, Rome +19%, Naples +16%) can play a critical role for the electrical system; for that reason, the introduction of photovoltaic arrays as a compensatory measure have been analysed.

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confidence: 99%

How Climate Change Affects the Building Energy Consumptions Due to Cooling, Heating, and Electricity Demands of Italian Residential Sector

Mancini

Basso

2020

Energies

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“…A GIS tool can also be used to identify suitable areas for the installation of new RES plants (Jahangiri et al, 2016) (Sánchez-Lozano et al, 2013) (Höhn et al, 2014) as well as for territorial planning aimed at increasing the percentage of electricity consumptions through RES (Yeo et al, 2013) (Yeo & Yee, 2014) (Saretta et al, 2019) that foresees the involvement of local communities (Brandoni & Polonara, 2012) (Simão et al, 2009) (Van Hoesen & Letendre, 2010. Although ambitious, the final goal is to achieve a full coverage of electricity consumption with RES (Heard et al, 2017) (Mason et al, 2010).…”

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A GIS-based model to assess electric energy consumptions and usable renewable energy potential in Lazio region at municipality scale

Santoli

Mancini

Garcia

2019

Sustainable Cities and Society

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The ongoing energy transition processes need a rapprochement between the places of energy production and consumption with the aim of creating innovative and integrated territorial models. Consequentially, models and strategies for increasing the use of local and renewable energy sources (RES) play a key rule for enhancing energy independence and sustainability of the considered areas. The main objective of this study is to analyse the energy system of the Lazio Region in Italy, comparing electricity consumptions and production from renewable sources at municipality scale. In order to estimate the electricity consumptions and the local production by RES, the main sectors of electricity consumption together with the potential of the available RES for the electricity production have been analysed. The obtained results pinpointed the main critical aspects of the Lazio region, that are mainly focalized in the city of Rome and in the most densely inhabited municipalities. Furthermore, research outputs provide an overall framework on the regional RES potential and allowed the formulation of proposals aimed at overcoming the identified criticalities and increasing the share of electricity production from renewables. Finally, the research approach could be replicated in other areas, providing a useful process for decision makers and stakeholders.

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“…Actively controlled façade: Shading [4], dynamic insulation [5], BIPV [6,7], RASF [7] Hours to minutes Interactive façade design: Glazing [8], construction material and envelope surface properties [9][10][11][12] Diurnal, seasonal, and life cycle Integrated design Passive design: Green roof [13], phase change materials [14,15], passive PV cooling [16,17], thermally activated building systems [18] Diurnal…”

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Section: Building Façadementioning

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“…Saretta et al encourage considering building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) for any façade retrofitting project [6]. They argue that the potential of BIPV can be predicted by using data sets for solar availability and the use of proper building energy modeling software [6]. They conclude that a geographic information system (GIS) based environment is widely used for modeling façade interactions with the environment and that physical building energy modeling software is preferred to statistical models for façade analysis [6].…”

Section: Building Façadementioning

confidence: 99%

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Interactive Buildings: A Review

Fallahi

Henze

2019

Sustainability

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Buildings are widely regarded as potential sources for demand flexibility. The flexibility of thermal and electric load in buildings is a result of their interactive nature and its impact on the building’s performance. In this paper, the interaction of a building with the three interaction counterparts of the physical environment, civil infrastructure networks and other buildings is investigated. The literature review presents a wide variety of pathways of interaction and their associated potential impacts on building performance metrics such as net energy use, emissions, occupant comfort and operational cost. It is demonstrated that all of these counterparts of interaction should be considered to harness the flexibility potential of the buildings while maintaining other buildings performance metrics at a desired level. Juxtaposed with the upside potential for providing demand flexibility, numerous implementation challenges are identified that are associated with the evaluation and financial valuation of the capacity for demand flexibility, the aggregated flexibility potential, as well as the control and communication to facilitate the interactions.

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A review study about energy renovation of building facades with BIPV in urban environment

Cited by 117 publications

References 69 publications

How Climate Change Affects the Building Energy Consumptions Due to Cooling, Heating, and Electricity Demands of Italian Residential Sector

How Climate Change Affects the Building Energy Consumptions Due to Cooling, Heating, and Electricity Demands of Italian Residential Sector

A GIS-based model to assess electric energy consumptions and usable renewable energy potential in Lazio region at municipality scale

Interactive Buildings: A Review

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