Europe anchored aspiring targets in achieving climate neutrality and this motivates the
research communities to analyze, investigate and frame strategies to achieve the goals in …

Energy communities can play a key role to move towxards a low-carbon and decentralized
energy system with higher penetration of renewable energies, offering new opportunities for …

This paper introduces a novel optimization approach to design and operate hybrid heating
system, which integrates existing centralized district heating assets and decentralized heat …

Direct ground cooling (DGC) is a method used in cold climates to provide cooling to
buildings without the use of any mechanical refrigeration. When DGC is utilized for providing …

This article provides the state-of-the-art on the optimal planning and design of future district
heating (DH) systems. The purpose is to provide practical information of first-step actions for …

Sweden has an ambitious plan to fully decarbonise district heating by 2030 and to contribute
with negative emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050. The vagaries of the energy market …

Due to their thermal inertia, buildings equipped with electric heating and cooling systems
can help to stabilize the electricity grid by shifting their load in time, and can thus facilitate …

A combination of a heat pump and thermal energy storage is an efficient method to utilize
variable renewable energy. Phase change materials have the potential to provide higher …

Hybrid installations with respect to renewable energy sources are becoming more popular
due to the stringent requirements for the energy efficiency of buildings. Therefore, the …

Ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) have been shown to be an effective means of
decarbonizing building heating and cooling, but the operation of these systems at scale …