Energy transition has brought widespread attentions to the concept of coupled utilization of
the geothermal and solar energy. This paper provides an integrated assessment on …

Greenhouses play a crucial role in food production and economic growth in northern regions
but contribute significantly to energy consumption and carbon emissions. To address this …

Shallow geothermal systems use the thermal inertia of the earth to provide a temperature
gradient between the ambient conditions and the underground soil. This thermal inertia can …

This research presents different scenarios of hybrid photovoltaic-geothermal heat pump
system that can provide the requirements of the heating and cooling load consumption in a …

An integrated renewable energy supply system is designed and proposed to effectively
address high building energy consumption in Zhengzhou, China. This system effectively …

The objective of this work is to propose a hybrid ground source heat pump system integrated
with solar energy and investigate its multicriteria performances. A compound parabolic …

To address the limitations of single renewable energy applications in cold regions, a novel
photovoltaic thermal curtain wall assisted dual-source (air and ground source) heat pump …

Heat pumps as the only end-use cooling/heating technology with a Coefficient of
Performance (COP) greater than one, have attracted a great deal of attention over the past …

During the last decades, both population growth and increasingly concentration in cities turn
these areas into major consumers of energy, mainly due to heating and cooling energy …

A novel energy index to assess plants capable of producing electricity from a renewable
source is introduced in this paper. This index allows to evaluate the bidirectional energy …