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Drivers and barriers to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies—a plant-level analysis of the German steel industry [PDF]

, 2017
The paper aims at explaining why large-scale energy-intensive industries—here the German iron and steel industry—had a period of slow uptake of major energy-efficient technologies from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s (Arens and Worrell, 2014) and why from the
Sustainable Energy, Eichhammer, Wolfgang, Energy, Resources & Technological Change, Energy and Resources, Arens, Marlene, Worrell, Ernst   +5 more
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Decarbonization of Residential Building Energy Supply: Impact of Cogeneration System Performance on Energy, Environment, and Economics

Energies, 2021
Electrical and thermal loads of residential buildings present a unique opportunity for onsite power generation, and concomitant thermal energy generation, storage, and utilization, to decrease primary energy consumption and carbon dioxide intensity. This
Praveen K. Cheekatamarla
doaj   +1 more source

Performance Evaluation of a Fuel Cell mCHP System under Different Configurations of Hydrogen Origin and Heat Recovery

Energies, 2023
Motivated by the growing importance of fuel cell systems as the basis for distributed energy-generation systems, this work considers a micro-combined heat and power (mCHP) generation system based on a fuel cell integrated to satisfy the (power and ...
Pedro Gabana, Francisco V. Tinaut, Miriam Reyes, José Ignacio Domínguez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy Effectiveness or Economic Profitability? A Case Study of Thermal Modernization of a School Building

Energies, 2021
Thermal refurbishment of buildings results in certain energy, financial, and environmental effects. Such investments are financially supported in Poland after meeting the legally defined conditions of thermal protection and energy consumption. This paper
Piotr Michalak, Krzysztof Szczotka, Jakub Szymiczek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficiency Analysis of Independent and Centralized Heating Systems for Residential Buildings in Northern Italy

Energies, 2011
The primary energy consumption in residential buildings is determined by the envelope thermal characteristics, air change, outside climatic data, users’ behaviour and the adopted heating system and its control.
Fabio Rinaldi, Andrea Casalegno, Renzo Marchesi, Matteo Zago   +3 more
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Optimisation of Energy Consumption in educational Buildings: The Case of Shahid Beheshti University [PDF]

صفه, 2022
According to statistics, educational institutions have the highest level of energy consumption in governmental buildings. Understanding the correct energy performance of the building, therefore, can help in using the correct optimisation methods. In this
Seyedeh Motahhareh Ahmadi Soleymani, Pegah Eshraghi, Maedeh Sadat Mirdamadi, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian   +3 more
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Renovation Measures for Reduction of Primary Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions of Hospital Building

Tehnički Glasnik
Hospitals, as highly energy-intensive buildings, significantly contribute to a country's energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The study focuses on a hospital building in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and investigates the impact of selected energy ...
Džana Kadrić, Rejhana Blažević, Hadis Bajrić, Adna Peco, Edin Kadrić   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance Indicators of Electricity Generation at Country Level—The Case of Italy

Energies, 2018
Power Grids face significant variability in their operation, especially where there are high proportions of non-programmable renewable energy sources constituting the electricity mix.
Michel Noussan, Roberta Roberto, Benedetto Nastasi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy Efficiency Management across EU Countries: A DEA Approach

Energies, 2021
We examine energy efficiency in the European Union (EU) using an integrated model that connects labor and capital as production factors with energy consumption to produce GDP with a limited amount of environmental emissions.
Kiril Simeonovski, Tamara Kaftandzieva, Gregory Brock   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primary Energy Supply

The Journal of The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 2006
Keywords: primary energy; stock of resources; ultra-long-term energy technology ...
openaire   +2 more sources