As a carbon‐based life form living in a predominantly carbon‐based environment, it is not
surprising that we have created a carbon‐based consumer society. Our principle sources of …

The accelerating use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution and the rapid destruction
of forests causes a significant increase in greenhouse gases. The increasing threat of global …

In this paper, we perform Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for optimizing size of a
PV/wind integrated hybrid energy system with battery storage. The proposed methodology is …

Chemistry with its key targets of providing materials and processes for conversion of matter
is at the center stage of the energy challenge. Most energy conversion systems work on (bio) …

Lithium ion batteries have been one of the major power supplies for small electronic devices
since the last century. However, with the rapid advancement of electronics and the …

In recent years, the Taiwanese government has vigorously promoted the development of
renewable energy to engage the challenges of gradual depletion of fossil fuels and oil, as …

Energy security has recently gained importance for many commercial, industrial, and
government facilities. Increasing the security of energy supply is essentially a strategy to …

The package r. sun within the open source Geographical Resources Analysis Support
System (GRASS) can be used to compute insolation including temporal and spatial variation …

In order to properly evaluate the thermal energy performance of buildings it is also
necessary to analyse the use of daylight, since this influences the thermal load of a building …

This paper provides a general overview of creating scenarios for energy policies using
Bayesian Network (BN) models. BN is a useful tool to analyze the complex structures, which …