Renewable Energy and Cooling Systems: Technologies, Market and Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 4302
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy economics; circular economy; heating and cooling; R&D funding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, space cooling demand has increased steadily worldwide, and is expected to rise even more in the coming years (2030/2050). This is true especially for the residential sector, where a significant increase of space cooling consumption in future is expected. To face this rising trend, we need to understand how to best meet actual and future demand while investigating the implementation of innovative, efficient space cooling solutions (best available technologies). In this contect, comfort, lifestyle, and user behaviour indications for different territories, demand-side management/demand response measures, as well as economic, policy, and legal/regulatory conditions are relevant. Natural, passive, and free cooling (including nature-based solutions) is an important part of the special issue, due to being largely unexplored so far and their high-deployment potential.
Dr. Simon Pezzutto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- space cooling consumption
- planning
- comfort, lifestyle and user behaviour
- residential sector
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