Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe

Ciancio, Virgilio; Salata, Ferdinando; Falasca, Serena; Curci, Gabriele; Golasi, Iacopo; Wilde, Pieter de

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102213

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“…Future predictions reveal an increase in the global energy demand due to the prosperity of emerging countries (characterized by a developing economy and growing population). However, the constantly growing eco-friendly attitude adopted by 2 of 15 people living in industrialized countries has caused an optimization process of energy consumptions in the residential sector [3][4][5].…”

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Resilience of a Building to Future Climate Conditions in Three European Cities

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Building energy need simulations are usually performed using input files that contain information about the averaged weather data based on historical patterns. Therefore, the simulations performed are not able to provide information about possible future scenarios due to climate change. In this work, future trends of building energy demands due to the climate change across Europe were studied by comparing three time steps (present, 2050, and -2080) in three different European cities, characterized by different Köppen-Geiger climatic classes. A residential building with modern architectural features was taken into consideration for the simulations. Future climate conditions were reached by applying the effects of climate changes to current hourly meteorological data though the climate change tool world weather file generator (CCWorldWeatherGen) tool, according to the guidelines established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In order to examine the resilience of the building, the simulations carried out were compared with respect to: peak power, median values of the power, and energy consumed by heating and cooling system. The observed trend shows a general reduction in the energy needs for heating (–46% for Aberdeen, –80% for Palermo, –36% for Prague in 2080 compared to the present) and increase (occurrence for Aberdeen) in cooling requirements. These results imply a revaluation of system size.

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“…The similarity between the possibility of application of the adaptive thermal comfort model from EN 16798-1:2019 of the study zone (Cadiz) to many coastal cities of the countries in southern Europe would allow natural ventilation to be considered to reduce building energy consumption. Several studies have showed both the possible limitations related to the implementation of nearly zero energy consumption buildings in the countries in southern Europe [93] and the possible vulnerability in these regions due to the progressive increase of the outdoor temperature because of climate change [94] . The possibility of implementing the natural ventilation strategy to acclimatize indoor spaces would reduce the energy consumption in the existing buildings of the coastal zones from these countries and ensure a greater resilience of users.…”

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Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

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“…Such a methodology is an important issue for our future work. Last but not least, it is necessary to emphasize that, in order to manage the energy of IBs in an efficient manner, all of the solutions mentioned in the previous sections must consider other nontechnological aspects, which are very often forgotten, including the human dimension [243,244] as well as environmental challenges, such as climate change [245,246].…”

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Intelligent Buildings in Smart Grids: A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues Related to Energy Management

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During the last decade, the smart grid (SG) concept has started to become a reality, mainly thanks to the technical progress achieved in telecommunications, informatics and power electronics, among other domains, leading to an evolution of the traditional electrical grid into an intelligent one. Nowadays, the SG can be seen as a system of smart systems that include cyber and physical parts from different technologies that interact with each other. In this context, intelligent buildings (IBs) constitute a paradigm in which such smart systems are able to guarantee the comfort of residents while ensuring an appropriate tradeoff of energy production and consumption by means of an energy management system (EMS). These interconnected EMSs remain the objective of potential cyber-attacks, which is a major concern. Therefore, this paper conducts a survey, from a multidisciplinary point of view, of some of the main security and privacy issues related to IBs as part of the SG, including an overview of EMS, smart meters, and the main communication networks employed to connect IBs to the overall SG. Future research directions towards a security enhancement from both technical and human perspectives are also provided.

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Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe

Cited by 118 publications

References 67 publications

Resilience of a Building to Future Climate Conditions in Three European Cities

Resilience of a Building to Future Climate Conditions in Three European Cities

Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

Intelligent Buildings in Smart Grids: A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues Related to Energy Management

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