Pathway for decarbonizing residential building operations in the US and China beyond the mid-century

S Zhang, N Zhou, W Feng, M Ma, X Xiang, K You - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
With global carbon budget targets looming, residential buildings in top economies must
become carbon neutral as soon as possible to reserve more emission space for emerging …

Critical review on community-shared solar—advantages, challenges, and future directions

N Narjabadifam, J Fouladvand, M Gül - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last few years, many innovative solutions have been presented to address the climate
change crisis. One of the innovative solutions is the participation of community members in …

Optimal sizing of PV-BESS units for home energy management system-equipped households considering day-ahead load scheduling for demand response and self …

AC Duman, HS Erden, Ö Gönül, Ö Güler - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Today, selling electricity to the grid has lost its former profitability with reduced feed-in tariff
(FiT) rates. This makes it crucial for prosumers to increase self-consumption and size their …

Efficient, effective and fair allocation of costs and benefits in residential energy communities deploying shared photovoltaics

MB Roberts, A Sharma, I MacGill - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Deployment of rooftop solar photovoltaics on multi-family buildings lags behind other
residential buildings sectors, despite the benefit of significantly higher self-consumption …

[HTML][HTML] Grid-optimal energy community planning from a systems perspective

S Kerscher, A Koirala, P Arboleya - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy communities (ECs) are a potential enabler for the socio-technical transition to carbon-
neutrality. Their emergence depends on setting the right course across various dimensions …

Environmental and economic analyses of different size photovoltaic installation in Poland

P Olczak, A Żelazna, K Stecuła, D Matuszewska… - Energy for Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
In Poland, in the last 3 years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of photovoltaic
micro-installations, especially in the power range of 2–10 kWp. The study analyzes the …

Optimising the self-consumption and self-sufficiency: A novel approach for adequately sizing a photovoltaic plant with application to a metropolitan station

MS Simoiu, I Fagarasan, S Ploix, V Calofir - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent trends in designing sustainable power systems emphasise the importance of self-
consumption (SC) both at individual and community level. This new paradigm changes the …

Photovoltaic systems for multi-unit buildings: Agents' rationalities for supporting distributed generation diffusion in Brazil

CA Frate, L de Oliveira Santos, PCM de Carvalho - Energy Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the energy compensation mechanism establishment in 2012, the Brazilian matrix has
exceeded forecasts for the expansion of PV application on rooftops. However, even with the …

Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China

Z Ren, Y Chen, C Song, M Liu, A Xu, Q Zhang - Building Simulation, 2024 - Springer
Installing photovoltaic (PV) systems is an essential step for low-carbon development. The
economics of PV systems are strongly impacted by the electricity price and the shadowing …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming the landlord–tenant dilemma: A techno-economic assessment of collective self-consumption for European multi-family buildings

C Domenig, F Scheller, PA Gunkel, J Hermann… - Energy Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Around half of the EU population lives in multi-family buildings, in which the landlord–tenant
dilemma poses a significant barrier to low-carbon retrofits. Collective self-consumption …