scholarly journals Development of Net Zero Energy Settlements Using Advanced Energy Technologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 1388-1401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afroditi Synnefa ◽  
Marina Laskari ◽  
Rajat Gupta ◽  
Anna Laura Pisello ◽  
Mat Santamouris
Keyword(s):  
Zero Energy ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero

scholarly journals Net Zero-Energy Home Design Strategies Learned From Canadian Experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Masa Noguchi
Keyword(s):  
Building Envelope ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Micro Power ◽  
Healthy Housing

In response to the growing demand for zero-energy housing, today's home needs not only to be energy-efficient, but also to provide part of its own energy requirements. The energy efficiency may be improved by applying high thermal performance building envelope and passive energy and environmental systems to housing. Micro-power can be generated through the use of renewable energy technologies. This paper is aimed at providing a comprehensive guideline on the design techniques and approaches to the delivery of net zero-energy healthy housing in view of the ÉcoTerra house, which won the Canadian federal government's EQuilibrium sustainable housing competition. The house was built in Eastman in the province of Quebec and it is currently open to the general public in order to sharpen the consumers' awareness of commercially available net zero-energy healthy housing today.

Commercialisation Strategies For Net Zero-Energy-Cost Housing in Japan

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Darragh Collins
Keyword(s):  
Energy Cost ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Water Heater ◽  
Standard Equipment ◽  
Niche Marketing ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Heat Pump Water Heater ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Zero Carbon

Today, Japanese housing manufacturers compete to produce net zero-energy-cost houses that are usually equipped with some renewable energy technologies-e.g. a solar photovoltaic electric power generating system, a CO2 refrigerant heat-pump water heater and a combined heat and power system. Interestingly, the manufacturers tend to install these costly renewable technologies as standard equipment rather than options. To initiate and maintenance the sales of their environmentally-friendly houses, the manufacturers bring into effect their quality-oriented production and user-oriented communication approaches. The manufacturers' way to commercialise their industrialised housing to some extent reflects their high cost-performance marketing strategy. This paper somewhat reflects the learning outcomes of the Zero-carbon PV Mass Custom Home Technical Mission to Japan that the first author organised in 2006 and 2007. It is aimed at identifying the manufacturers' essential commercialisation strategies being applied for the niche-marketing of their net zero-energy-cost housing.

MOHAWK COLLEGE'S NET ZERO ENERGY AND ZERO CARBON BUILDING—A LIVING LAB FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES IN BUILDINGS

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-214
Author(s):  
Rutul Bhavsar ◽  
Anthony Cupido ◽  
Mariano Arriaga
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Technologies ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Zero Carbon ◽  
Energy Use Intensity

INTRODUCTION In recent years, large high efficiency and Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) are becoming a reality that are setting construction and energy benchmarks for the industry. As part of this significant effort, in 2018, Mohawk College opened the 8,981 m2 (96,670 ft2) Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation (JCPI) building in Hamilton, Ontario; becoming Canada's largest NZEB and zero-carbon institutional facility. The building integrated a high-efficiency design, construction materials, and technologies; as well as renewable energy technologies to significantly reduce its annual energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the JCPI building was also designed as a living lab where students, faculty, researchers and industry are able to monitor and validate the performance of this state-of-the-art facility. The building was designed to have an energy use intensity of 73 kWh/m2·year (0.26 GJ/m2·year); hence, potentially consuming approximately 80% less energy than the average educational service building in Ontario. This paper gives an overview of the design criteria and technologies that were considered to achieve this innovative building.

Intelligent building development and LabView-based modelling of a net zero-energy strategy

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cs. Szász
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Balance Performance ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Intelligent Building ◽  
Labview Software ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero Energy Building ◽  
Net Zero

The paper presents an intelligent building (IB) development strategy emphasizing the locally available non-polluting renewable energy resources utilization. Considering the immense complexity of the topic, the implementation strategy of the main energy-flow processes is unfolded, using the net zero-energy building concept (NZEB). Noticeably, in the first research steps the mathematical background of the considered NZEB strategy has been developed and presented. Then careful LabView software-based simulations prove that the adopted strategy is feasible for implementation. The result of the above mentioned research efforts is a set of powerful and versatile software toolkits well suitable to model and simulate complex heating, ventilation and air-conditioning processes and to perform energy balance performance evaluations. Besides the elaborated mathematical models, concrete software implementation examples and measurement data also is provided in the paper. Finally, the proposed original models offer a feasible solution for future developments and research in NZEB applications modelling and simulation purposes.

Proceedings of the ERDC-CERL Net Zero Energy (NZE) Installation and Deployed Bases Workshop Held in Colorado Springs, CO. on 3-4 Feb 2009

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl A. Feickert ◽  
Thomas J. Hartranft ◽  
Franklin H. Holcomb ◽  
John L. Vavrin ◽  
Alexander M. Zhivov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zero Energy ◽  
Colorado Springs ◽  
Net Zero Energy ◽  
Net Zero
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