New Technologies in Reducing Building Energy Consumption
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 199
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optimization design for integrated energy system; energy system design of nearly zero-energy communities; renewable energy utilization technology; renovation and design of passive building
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Interests: zero energy building & community; zero emission building & community; energy system design of ZEB with EV car; impact of PV planning in the urban area
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Interests: zero energy building & community; zero emission building & community; PV planning in community; building codes and standards
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to data from the International Energy Agency, the global primary energy consumption continues to rise, reaching 5 × 108 TJ. Therefore, the energy consumption of buildings has reached more than 30% of the total energy consumption of the whole society. In November 2022, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) included a call for all countries to join the Buildings Breakthrough. Over 16 countries and 13 initiatives or foundations have expressed support for the joint vision of making near-zero emission and climate-resilient buildings the new normal by 2030. However, in this context, there are still many scientific challenges about building energy consumption, such as renewable energy utilization, energy optimization design, etc. Therefore, how to reduce building energy consumption has become a major focus for the sustainable development of society.
This Special Issue aims to collect research articles and critical reviews about scientific and technical information on recent advances in building energy consumption for sustainable development. The primary areas of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, (1) low/zero-carbon emission building; (2) renewable energy equipment applied to buildings; (3) design optimization methods of building energy systems; (4) design optimization of building envelope structures; (5) energy storage technologies; and (6) load demand responses in buildings. The Special Issue welcomes both qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as empirical and theoretical contributions.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Di Wu
Dr. Xinyan Yang
Dr. Shicong Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- optimization design
- load demand responses
- energy storage
- building envelope
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