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Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19

open access: yesEnergy Research & Social Science, 2020
This study explores the dynamics of energy use patterns, climate change issues and the relationship between social-psychological factors, with residents’ acceptance of and willingness to pay (WTP) for home energy management systems (HEMS) during the ...
Chien-fei Chen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improved representation of investment decisions in the German energy supply sector: An optimization approach using the TIMES model

open access: yesEnergy Strategy Reviews, 2019
The German energy supply sector is becoming diverse and dispersed due to the variety of actors investing in energy generation technologies and spatially variable renewable resources, which bring about increased heterogeneity in the investment decisions ...
Ali Tash   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of National Climate Targets on the Energy-Water Nexus in Germany: A Case Study

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2021
The German energy transition is not only a challenge for the technical system transformation but will also imply changes in the water system and reallocation of resource usage.
Vera Sehn, Markus Blesl
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing Monitoring and Control of an HVAC System through IoT

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Throughout time, European policies on climate and energy change have generated several transformations in the building sector. In this endeavour, digital technologies have played an essential role in energy efficiency through process optimisation ...
Vladimir Tanasiev   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Solar energy in the context of energy use, energy transportation and energy storage [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2013
Taking the UK as a case study, this paper describes current energy use and a range of sustainable energy options for the future, including solar power and other renewables. I focus on the area involved in collecting, converting and delivering sustainable energy, looking in particular detail at the potential role of solar power.
openaire   +2 more sources

COVID-19 and household energy implications: what are the main impacts on energy use?

open access: yesHeliyon, 2020
This study explores the impacts of COVID-19 on household energy use. Some of these impacts are associated with longer-term energy demand changes and some could just be temporary.
A. Cheshmehzangi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Promotion of Efficient Use of Energy: Final Report

open access: yes, 2006
The Department of Energy funded the Alliance to Save Energy to promote the efficient use of energy under a multiyear cooperative agreement. This funding allowed the Alliance to be innovative and flexible in its program development, and to initiate and ...
Alliance to Save Energy (U.S.)
core   +1 more source

The safety of paraffin and LPG appliances for domestic use

open access: yes, 2002
Households have an absolute need for thermal energy, particularly for cooking. Poorer households use coal, dung, fuelwood, LPG and paraffin. Unpressurised paraffin appliances are far from safe.
Lloyd, Philip JD
core   +2 more sources

Methodology for Estimating the Lifelong Exposure to PM2.5 and NO2—The Application to European Population Subgroups

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2019
Health impacts of air pollutants, especially fine particles (PM2.5) and NO2, have been documented worldwide by epidemiological studies. Most of the existing studies utilised the concentration measured at the ambient stations to represent the pollutant ...
Naixin Li, Rainer Friedrich
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing Exergy Analysis and Physical Optimum Method Regarding an Induction Furnace

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
In order to achieve energy and climate goals, energy and resource efficiency are considered a key measure. Limit-value-oriented methods such as the exergy analysis and the physical optimum method are used to show the limits of efficiency improvement.
Paula Marlene Wenzel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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